one of my favourite pieces at moma

Lunar Alphabet II (1978-9) & Lunar Sentence II (1978-9) by Leandro Katz

Lunar Alphabet II (1978-9) & Lunar Sentence II (1978-9) by Leandro Katz.

Silver gelatin prints from an Argentine artist, born 1938. The decoded sentence reads, “When we pulverize words, what is left is neither mere noise nor arbitrary, pure elements, but still other words, reflection of an invisible and yet indelibible representation: this is the myth in which we now transcribe the most obscure and real powers of language.”

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