Invisible Words
Saana Wang
Photography book
Invisible Words explores what remains when speech recedes. In To the Lighthouse (1927), Virginia Woolf approaches grief indirectly, through shifts in the experience of time, memory and the surrounding world.
The photographic works in the series meet in the intermediate space between abstract and representational images.
The book unfolds through four interconnected sections:
I. The Private — Traces of Events
II. Photograph as a Site of Collective Grief
III. Beyond the Gaze — Encounter, Touch, Detachment
IV. Resonance and Attunement
Across these sections, the book is structured around a tension between two experiential states: the impulsive and the contemplative, immediacy and motion contrasted with silence, duration and attentiveness.
Through the deliberate disruption of narrative continuity, the event depicted in the photograph and its temporal framework begin to dissolve, opening the work to alternative forms of temporal and experiential engagement.
Invisible Words brings together photographs from 2003 to 2026, including images from the Attunement and Tuning series.
Photograph titles in order of appearance:
View from my Window, This is not a Found Image, Untitled, Untitled (Rain of Stones) Light, This is not a Found Image, Teo, (Rain of Stones), Untitled (Attunement),2010-03-04, Untitled, Untitled, Echo, Untitled, Untitled (Tuning), Sun
Selected images.
The photobook comprises 168 pages.
2003-2026
©Saana Wang
