BARTHES: Rivane Neuenschwander's I Wish Your Wish Barthes essay From Work to Text relates to artist Rivane Neuenschwander's idea of art who uses text to comprise her piece of artwork. Ribbons hanging from holes in the wall display phrases of individual text each with their own specific meaning. When put together the ribbons make a whole piece of work, but divided they are just a piece of the whole. When divided they are taken into context of wishes made by individuals, but when all displayed together the greater meaning of the piece comes out. The viewer notices that in a group a greater message is conveyed and that many peoples wishes went into producing the work. Each ribbon has an individual meaning, because "text is not a co-existence of meanings but a passage, an overcrossing"(Barthes 159). The passages are displayed individually and put together to produce the piece of work. The work has many meanings with many co parts that comprise it, because "text is plural...an irreducible plural"and each ribbon makes its own individual statement. The text on the ribbons has many different meanings, which when understood as a whole become a work of art conveying the wishes of people from all around the world in various languages of text with unique messages.
Works Cited: Barthes, Roland. "From Work to Text." Image Music Text. New York, NY: Hill and Wang, 1977. 161-61.
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