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Artists make use of every available medium in order to explore the relation between form and meaning in the production of texts as images – and texts in relation to images.

Artists are also keenly aware of the visual codes of media culture and often appropriate the look of a label, a logo, or a commercial message and transform it through re-rendering.

Whether original or appropriated, when a text is juxtaposed with drawn, painted, or photographic images, its meaning is radically altered, creating a compelling critical or personal voice.

Neuberger Museum of Art 20 September 1998 - 31 January 1999