DARCY BELLA ARNOLD, FERNANDO DO CAMPO, MITCHEL CUMMING, EMMALYN HAWTHORNE, SEBASTIAN MOODY & AARON PERKINS
Kerning
11 May 2023—28 May 2023
Opening:
Saturday 13th May, 4 - 6 PM
The typographic process of kerning ensures the readability of a text by adjusting the space between its individual letters. In a well-kerned text this process is invisible; it simply ‘looks right’. Yet we live in an age when what ‘looks right’ has often been insidiously engineered to remove any space for interpretation or nuance.
Bringing together text artists from Naarm, Meanjin and the Gadigal land of the Eora nation, ‘Kerning’ navigates the spaces between letters, words and sentences to consider with both scepticism and wonder the spaces within language.
Documentation by Alex Hobba.