Untitled (together separately)
A work executed – exceptionally – in a font imitating handwriting, composed of the two eponymous words written twice on the board. In one version, the letters within each word are written “together” (connected); in the other, they are written “separately” – with spaces between letters. It thus refers to a situation in handwritten text in which the letters within words may either be written without lifting the hand from the paper or deliberately spaced out in order to draw attention to a particular word. At the same time, the work combines tautology with a contradiction between the meaning of the words and their visual form: the letters of the word “together” are, in one instance, written together and, in the other, separately; the same applies to the word “separately.”
This is another metalinguistic work that reflects on the relationship between the meaning of a word and its visual representation. Dróżdż also created an expanded version of the work, consisting of 28 boards, in which all possible combinations of the two words are used, including combinations in which they form a single, continuous word; their letters are alternately written together and separately. By analogy, these operations performed on words point to the various possible forms of relationships between human beings. The multi-board version was produced as a digital print on a rigid support.