May your Mouth Contain the Shape of Strange Words

The works of Maya Weishof and Vanessa da Silva are an invitation to re-consider our modality of perception, leaning towards a oneness that sees the human and the worldly, the spiritual and the mundane, as profoundly interconnected beyond modernist paradigms of categorization and aseptic division. They recall ancient archetypes of reading our phenomenological tools, to then - perhaps - shifting to the ontological dimension and suggesting to reconsider who we are, and which stories we are part of. “May your mouth contain the shapes of strange words”, the exhibition title - an extract from a poem by Ursula K. Le Guin, sets the leitmotif for a newfound direction of understanding: sometimes the most strange words, and the most uncanny combinations, are the only ones containing revelations that help us moving forward in this ongoing journey of interpreting life. “Please bring strange things. Please come bringing new things. Let very old things come into your hands. Let what you do not know come into your eyes. Let desert sand harden your feet. Let the arch of your feet be the mountains. Let the paths of your fingertips be your maps. And the ways you go be the lines of your palms”. Ursula K. Le Guin