Synopsis:

Supernormal presents Poetic Motions, a solo exhibition by Matthias Hillner.

Images are fast replacing words in our daily conversations. We speak in emojis and memes, and our love for image-driven social media, such as Instagram and Snapchat, point to the inadequacy of the written word in our increasingly visual world today. Faced with an information overload, reading texts is seen as too tiring—a process of analysis that is too slow, static, and simply out of sync with the times.

Through typography, Matthias Hillner has been exploring ways to revitalise the written word through design. His series of prints, sculptures and digital installations are "typographic gestures" that sit in-between image and text, abstract and figure, as well as real and virtual. They can be seen, could be read, may be understood and certainly questioned. They are words, and they are not.

Supernormal
Supernormal is an independent art space that strives to present experimental and offbeat works and projects, ranging from design to artistic practises, and the in-betweens. Housed in the characteristic building at 333 Kreta Ayer Road, Supernormal hopes to create a creative and experimental platform for new possibilities in Singapore's creative and artistic landscape.

Supernormal is an ongoing project of Modular Unit, a new media design studio that combines art, design and technology to create immersive sensory environments and new formats of visual communication. Following this approach, they work across multiple platforms ranging from installations, exhibition design, web and experimental structures.