#scripta manent

Komotini, Greece – Poster in solidarity with the comrades arrested following “Scripta Manent” (06/2017)

Zilberman Gallery is happy to announce Zeynep Beler’s project exhibition, Writing Remains, at the gallery’s second floor space in Istanbul, between January 7–February 18, 2017. The departure point for Writing Remains is asemic writing, a wordless, open-ended form of writing that is seemingly a vacuum of meaning. One of the first known examples of this form of writing belongs to two calligraphy masters who lived in China during the Tang Dynasty era—“crazy” Zhang Xu known for his slapdash and contentless calligraphy works and “drunk” monk Huai Su. In later historic periods, this tradition could be traced in different works, including the contentless, text-based works by the Dadaists in the 1920s; Kandinsky’s textual abstractions; Roland Barthes’s contentless paragraphs and letters that he referred to as Contre-écritures.