Punctuation marks were originally introduced in antiquity as pauses for public speakers/readers. For the OPEN DOORS titled [ · — ; ] Sarah Rinderer takes these marks – that allow time for breath and different interactions – as starting points to open a dialogue with Athens, the Greek language and alphabet, always with the same attention to blanks and intermediate characters, to the seemingly small, as well as to letters.
Rinderer offers us the question about what is an artist-writer’s task when faced with a blank space. For her, a blank space is never empty, but it is filled with pre-existing, invisible words and punctuation marks, written in some other past (or future) time. A writer is an archaeologist of language – or a futurist of language, depending on one’s particular point of view.
For [ · — ; ] Rinderer will work in dialogue with the punctuation marks of the antiquity, as for her they are living, breathing entities that persistently call upon her name. Rinderer will interact in this dialogue with Ifigeneia Ilia-Georgiadou as a guest artist in an exploration of and an exchange on the spaces in between languages.
