Natalie Czech, A poet’s question by Charles Olson (What if I am more, am I? / aaa e f h iii mmm o r t w), 2019
, Archival Pigment Print, Edition 1/5 + 2 AP, 131 x 98 cm
Kollitsch Collection

In her conceptual photographs, Natalie Czech investigates the reciprocal relationship between image and text. In her series “Poet’s Questions”, she examines the writing on objects such as music tapes or pencils for its poetic potential. By emphasising, omitting, highlighting or rearranging individual words, letters and syllables, she makes texts visible and puts them in relation to the works of contemporary artists, based on which she formulates poetic questions. In one instance, she juxtaposes the question “What if I am more, am I” by Charles Olson and the album title “I’m a Writer, Not a Fighter” by Gilbert O'Sullivan and links them on a linguistic and visual level.