One of the medullary aspects of Ana Hatherly’s poetics is its interest in the materiality of language, subjected to continuous investigations in the most varied forms. Each work seems to be a piece of the same incessant research and shows an attention to the performativity and physicality of writing, to the search for its most uneasy or suspensive – essayistic? – voltage. If the essayist, eminently experimental, sets up an “infinite game” and textualizes a “tactile tought” (Jean-Christophe Bailly), it is worth speculating on the configuration of an essayism in many of Hatherly’s poetic and visual experiences. Although the author also collects explicitly reflective texts, this essay starts from the hypothesis.
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