For me art is a powerful instrument to deal with socio-political issues on small and large scale, to take positions and communicate them. With my works I am trying to create new perspectives, contribute to current debates, provoke discourses. Questions about the current undermining of democratic values and structures as well as environmental protection and global coexistence in general are particularly urgent to me.
My main topics are: feminism, gender narratives, i_dentity, reality and being human in the digital age, the issues of climate change, racism, colonialism, democracy, freedom.
With text bodies and portraits, consisting for example of the words text and sex i „draw“ with typewriter. text bodies and portraits can be read as gender constructions, as self-images, apparent portraits, testimonies, alienations, memory mosaics, narratives that constantly generate new narratives. The trace is lost and found and peremantly transforms like all forms.
I also explore how words create/unfold meaning, standing on their own or in constant repetition. sometimes i am practising a kind of conceptual automatic typing. Random typos often play a decisive role in my work. They interfere with the text, with meanings and interpretations, sometimes like comments. The unconscious communicates with the conscious, extends it. Playfully, words stand at attention, dance out of line, transform themselves into images and transform images.
Victoria Hohmann, 2020
As a text artist, I work obsessively with language at the interface between text and image. Their interaction generates new ways of thinking. Image and text always speak together and simultaneously for themselves. Language is my material. Speed and chance are recurring tools. I am interested in errors and imperfection in the analogue and digital worlds and in extending my artistic communication to the invisible. In doing so, I experiment with techniques of visual poetry. In linear typewriting, for example, I counteract the linearity of the device, „drawing“ silhouettes of text bodies with terms. Papers, their tactility, appearance, manufacturing tradition and context are an essential part of this. I work with multimedia. Small-format typewriting anagrams become videos and poster ideas for public spaces/stickers/billboards etc., excerpts from long poems become visually experienceable as audio spectra or large-scale quotations on canvas, book covers are simultaneously props for queer-feminist social media clips and explorations of the performativity of text. The spectrum of my work ranges from experimental poetry to asemic writing.
Victoria Hohmann, 2025
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