Square Street Gallery Exhibition Explores Language as an Evolving Marker of Sociocultural Relations
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Stephanie Bailey
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An exhibition at Square Street Gallery titled "Faan1jik6 Zi1gaan1" (translating to 'In between translations') examines how language functions as an evolving marker of sociocultural relations. The show features three artists and uses the Romanised Cantonese transliteration of 翻譯之間 to reflect on how language is an intimate form of embodied transmission, where meaning is contingent on contextual and interpersonal relations. The article explores how everyday language use reveals a more complex, materialist understanding of culture.
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· 2 pulledIf language is an intimate form of embodied transmission, whereby words are spoken by individuals whose understanding of their meaning is contingent on contextual and interpersonal relations, then it is through language's everyday use that a more complex, materialist understanding of culture emerges.
The title of Faan1jik6 Zi1gaan1, a three-artist group show, is the Romanised, Cantonese transliteration of 翻譯之間 (meaning: 'In between translations') and pointedly reflects on that dyn
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