Tools that measure the intensity of passionate interests

Overview

Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens’ practice is infused with a long-standing desire to make language visible. The artists approach the language of genres, professions and areas of specialisation as socially situated dialects, containing within them traces of values, perspectives and experiences of their speakers.

The works presented in the Sharjah Biennial explore how desire, belief and economy are intertwined. Tools that measure the intensity of passionate interest references emblem books printed in Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries to render abstract and moral concepts into signifying images.


April 2011

This project was part of Sharjah Biennial 10

Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation