The use of LANGUAGE in contemporary art-making can be a powerful tool,as artists engage
with wordplay and their semantic allusion to open
up new reading in art,beyond their visual qualities.
This Unitled work by Cheo Chai-Hiang,submitted to the 1976 National Sculpture
Exhibition,comprises of an adapted log of wood,lodged
with a traditional washing board,that is design to open
and reveal text from the final stanza of the 1922 Robert
Frost poem,stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening.
Initially in the exhibition,By incorporating text into the
artwork,Cheo’s work navigates between the realms of the
texture an
the visual.By interchanging the location of meaning for
viewers between text and air object,viewers are prompted
to reconsider the processes of how artworks can be read and
understand.

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