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Mad Drunker, Night Work
Lintalow Hashiguchi
This work is by Lintalow Hashiguchi, an artist from Nagasaki, Japan, who fuses traditional calligraphy with contemporary art, performance, and the raw energy of punk rock. Also known by the alias WLIGHTE—a hybrid of Write, Light, and Fight—he expresses an artistic ethos grounded in intensity, immediacy, and embodied resistance.

In Hashiguchi’s practice, letters are no longer symbols to be read. Instead of a brush, he uses a towel—channeling movement directly from the body to the paper in bursts of physical improvisation. The resulting marks do not belong to any specific language. The artist calls them “symbolic organisms”—gestural traces, emotional vibrations, and momentary energies rendered visible.

The works presented in this Biennale explore the sensorial possibilities that emerge between ink, the body, and unspoken language. Drawing from the aesthetics and materiality of East Asian ink tradition, Hashiguchi departs from legibility and invites viewers into an experience of resonance—something felt, not decoded.

For Hashiguchi, “neighboring” is not about sharing a common language, but about sharing emotional frequency. His characters become instruments of resonance beyond words, extending the lineage of calligraphy into a distinctly contemporary breath—visceral, immediate, alive.

Here, writing becomes movement, sound, and rhythm.
Letters come alive again—not as texts to be interpreted,
but as performances to be felt through the viewer’s own body.