TANJA SMIT – ATLAS OF TEXTSCAPES

TANJA SMIT – ATLAS OF TEXTSCAPESArt. Jap Sam Books, 2025. Hardcover, color, 304 pages. 8. 3"x7. 9" From the press: 'The Atlas of Textscapes' presents a forty year overview of Tanja Smits text drawings, created directly on magazine articles and newspaper pages. The result is a striking collection of visual patterns and a wide ranging exploration of layout, language, and meaning. At once critical and poetic, the work is both an investigation into the structure of text and an ode to

OSSIA surfaces the unsayable terrain of history

Austria’s largest concentration camp

anthropologists

Can one chart an intricate web of friendships or unravel the track of a catastrophe

that text can be set perfectly and yet look insufferably dull

dreams and songs and prayers

His work is introduced by literary scholar Alberto Manguel

Brandon LaBelle

In this playful

When her family returns to Guatemala years later

bending and breaking standard Brazilian Portuguese

Organized according to the principle of montage