A curation by Natalie Slater, Curator at Singulart - A word can be read in an instant, but here it rarely stops there. Across these works, artists repeat, layer, enlarge, obscure, and place language in ways that make us look at it as much as read it. In some works, repetition turns a single word into a pattern. Elsewhere, a phrase cuts directly across the image, letters crowd together until they become difficult to separate, or a word sits quietly within a heavily worked surface and has to be found. Handwriting, graffiti, typography, and painted text each give language a different physical character. What connects the works is the way words occupy the composition. Sometimes they deliver the image immediately; sometimes they compete with it. And in others, meaning arrives only after the word has already registered as shape, color, or mark.