Joseph Grigely
Even If You Can’t Hear, 2016Ink and pencil on paper, pins75.5 × 262 cm (29 23⁄32 × 103 5⁄32 inches)
Deaf since the age of ten, Joseph Grigely has long relied on writing as a surrogate for speech, inviting his interlocutors to jot down their questions on cocktail napkins, hotel stationery, gallery announcements, whatever they find at hand. In 1994, Grigely began employing these once discarded notes to create a series of witty, wry installations and mixed-media assemblages that explore the potential —as well as the limits —of human communication.
