View the Language-Art Project 2022 gallery
- Written byPatrick Smith
- Published date 10 June 2022
The Language-Art Project brings together students from across UAL to share ideas and create artwork that explores the theme of ‘language’.
The Project welcomes all students, whether Home or International, Undergraduate or Postgraduate, and from any subject discipline.
This year, the exhibition showcases 21 artworks, across four categories:
- Meaning and Connotation
- Language, Culture, Heritage
- Language and Visual Storytelling
- Alternative Forms of Language
They all interpret the theme in unique ways, reflecting the many facets of language.
In the short video Walking with the Air, Hyemin Gil combines English and Korean dialect with open space and a restful soundscape, to reflect “how different types of language exist so naturally, just like nature and air.”
Bloody Hell, Crush, Loneliness, Disappearance, a collaborative work by Irene Lau, Pam Chen and Yibing Yu, shows how the form and meaning of words can be closely entwined (known as the bouba/kiki effect).
And in Space, Time, Form, Petrica Bistran uses abstract painting to represent the very notion of “poetry” and the poetic.
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Finding the Connection by Kemi Ajose (BA Textiles Design, Central Saint Martins) -
Video still from When the Park is Sick, animation by Zihan Ye (MA Illustration, Camberwell College of Arts) -
"Body" Language: Printed suit and Hanfu by Zhouxuezi Wang (Kitty) (MA Fashion and Innovation Entrepreneurship, London College of Fashion) -
Lost in Translation by Inca Fry (Foundation Art and Design - Sculpture, Camberwell College of Arts) -
The Opposites Game by Luna Lyu (BA Fashion Jewellery, London College of Fashion)
