Joseph Kosuth: The exchange value of language has fallen to zero

Casa dei Tre Oci presents “The-exchange-value-of-language-has-fallen-to-zero”, an exhibition dedicated to Joseph Kosuth, curated by Mario Codognato and Adriana Rispoli. Conceived as a tribute to a leading figure of Conceptual art with a long-standing connection to Venice, the exhibition brings together seminal works from across Kosuth’s practice alongside a newly commissioned neon installation.

Through its title, the exhibition reflects on the diminished weight of language within a media-saturated cultural context. By reactivating and recontextualising his own works, Kosuth examines meaning as something contingent, produced through the relation between text, object and space, in dialogue with the philosophical investigations of Ludwig Wittgenstein.