Exhibition Opening: IMPERFECTION, featuring work by Agnieszka Ziemiszewska

About

IMPERFECTION, an exhibition in the UT Department of Design featuring work by guest artist by Agnieszka Ziemiszewska (Poland), was born out of a fascination with the traces left behind by time and human touch. It is based on an exploration of the Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection – a working archive of historic wooden printing types that bears witness to the evolution of American typography, shifts in visual identity, and changing forms of communication over the course of the nineteenth century. While Kelly sought to understand the history of typography through these objects, IMPERFECTION focuses on how that history remains tangible in their physical form. The preserved letterforms reveal not only the aesthetics of past eras but also the memory of craftsmanship and the work of human hands.