In the wide-ranging work of Joan Brossa, the alphabet and writing have a structural presence. With his heightened linguistic sensibility, this poet and visual artist makes the relationship between things and words into one of the key features of his work. Hanging inside a booklet with its pages open, suspended between paper walls, a writing pen suggests the act of naming the world and the ever-ambiguous connection between objects and words, between the physical world and its symbolisation. What is the relationship between things and their signs? Joan Brossa’s visual poetry and his objects have a performative quality in relation to this vital question. While other artists, like René Magritte, were to create pictorial reflections of a clearly conceptual character, Brossa brings all this back to earth, with his use of materials and humble way of making art much closer to life itself.