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Tia Madden is an artist whose practice is concerned with the overlaps between drawing and writing, the poetics of illegibility, and the potential for abstract marks to behave communicatively when framed – or misread – as language. Through expanded drawing and installation, Madden explores language as a physical material and a spatial form, constructing spaces that are generative, poetic, and resist fixed interpretation. Her practice-based research calls on the speculative-fictional and archaeological to explore the possibility of an ‘uncoded form’: a sign not-yet or no-longer tied to a language system. 

Performing fictions, Madden’s installations build on languages of abstraction to construct speculative linguistic architectures— skeletons of language that may act as vessels for communication, even if they only speak in worlds outside our own. Her research offers spaces where meaning remains open-ended, indeterminate and resistant to control. Aligning with critical discussions on how meaning is formed, distorted or artificially imposed, she asks viewers to confront the possibility that language is temporary, unstable, and open to manipulation. Her MFA research project looks to challenge the authority of interpretation, unsettling our ideas of how, where, and when meaning dwells in human-made marks.