Pictographs in Intercultural Communication >>>
In her series 366 Days, Katja MacLeod Kessin (1959–2006) — a German-born artist who emigrated to Montreal, Canada — paints icons, symbols and words. The deciphering of these works reveals the polarity between general interpretation and personal significance, which varies according to the viewer’s individual, cultural and linguistic background.
In this article, Alexandra Daszkowski (Hamburg) and Sara Morley (Montreal) explore six of the 366 pictograph-like motifs. In dialogue, they consider how these images resonate with them personally, and they reflect on the possible universality of Katja’s symbolic language.
