Character

Character is an artist book composed from a danced alphabet documented in a series of frontal photographic reproductions.
Graphic designer Joris Kritis constructs a type specimen in rigorously playful page compositions echoing iconic logos, calligrams, graphic designs and concrete poetry.
The shapes danced by choreographer Femke Gyselinck jump, turn and twist, but her body purposely doesn’t bend to illustrate the letters from A to Z. It is through Joris Kritis’ visual configurations of the photographs that reading the danced alphabet begins.
The photography in Character is by Robbrecht Desmet.

Book launch: November 10, 2023 at Bozar Bookshop, Brussels, BE

Book presentation: May 2, 2024 at 18:30 at BOEKS, a platform for showing books of KASK & Conservatorium in Ghent, BE.
>> a small exhibition with a library of references in the Cellarium of the Kunstenbibliotheek. Asli Çiçek proposes the scenography for the exhibition, May 2, 2024 - June 17, 2024.

Book presentation: July 7, 2024, Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, Julidans, Amsterdam, NL
>> Femke Gyselinck in conversation with Julidans artistic director Anita van Dolen
>> with reference library and scenography by Aslı Çiçek