altgnon is visual artist based in the UK. His, mostly digital, work is a conversation between his love of lingual spontaneity and frustration with the rigidity and permanence of the written word. Inspired by asemic writing, redaction and calligraffiti, his ‘unwriting’ deconstructs traditional typographic structures learned in his past, questioning the relationship between reader and text.
The artist has a previous life as a street artist, under a different name, and as the Creative Director of a design and marketing agency before that. During the Covid lockdowns, altgnon experienced a loss of faith in the communication business and began experimenting with non-semantic, post-literate writing when he found he had no more words.
I-N-T-E-R-L-U-D-E is a painterly series of digital and physical works exploring themes of legibility and memory, inspired by a very strange day spent in ER with someone suffering from transient global amnesia. The title hopefully carries a positive undertone, symbolising a return to life’s rhythm after adversity. Memories linger in the spaces. These pieces might be deciphered if the viewer accepts the absence and reconnects.
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Volume 15.1, Winter 25
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