neyde lantyer

Accidental Language is a set of messages collected by chance from walls, posters, advertisements, and protest signs across public spaces in different cities, these short texts present fragments of ideas that introduce an element of mystery. Touching layers of subjectivity, they invite endless associations and interpretations. Continuously evolving, the project unfolds as an open-ended series of expressions, enigmas, and mind games, capable of provoking new insights.

Closely aligned with conceptual and text-based art practices, these works foreground the capacity of language to generate alternative ways of perceiving the world—at once aesthetic, poetic, and political. Here, the messages emerge as silent and ambiguous presences that produce estrangement or wonder and, paraphrasing Jacques Rancière, hold the potential to stimulate reflection and mobilization.

As in ancient Rome, aleatoris designated a gambling house and aleator the dice player; both derive from the Latin alea, which refers at once to the dice and to the act of engaging in a game of chance. In this sense, accidental findings generate outcomes that remain inherently uncertain. The series may thus be seen as an aesthetic, literary, and ideological game, one that recognizes and activates a transformative visual language emerging from everyday life and cultures.