DVD
Published: 2021

I
video, 2009 18 min 44 sec
II
video, 2010 10 min 55 sec



ANNETTE LE FORT is an artist and typographer, researching in the field of language, with a focus on the relation between speech and writing, the act of writing, script as a trace of memory, palimpsest and synaesthesia. She explores this mainly through video work, sound projects, photograms and different forms of performative diaries. She is the editor of a series of publications revolving around the ‘materiality’ of language, which are based on her project at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. Parole #1: The Body of the Voice / Stimmkörper, Parole #2: Phonetic Skin / Phonetische Haut, and Parole #3: The Hand Writing/ Handschrift published by Salon Verlag, 2009, 2012 and 2017. Since 2009 she is Professor for Typography at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel.

Synästhetische Bilder [Synaesthetic Images]
by Annette le Fort / Eilith le Fort

Synästhetische Bilder consists of two video works showing the artist’s mother Eilith le Fort, who as a synaesthete is able to experience colours corresponding to each of the vowels. The first video captures the synaesthete at her desk as she speaks to herself, provoking and describing the colours while trying to paint them. By doing so she creates an audio-visual meditation on the intermingling of the senses. The second video is for closed eyes, with a black screen, whose image emerges within the listener’s mind, following her voice as she journeys through different scenes, describing the inner colours she sees and which are created purely through language. Both video works explore synaesthesia as a phenomenon with a subjective order, where language and perception interweave in poetical ways.