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My poems are visual representations of reading. I imagine the context of the linguistic event, and within that make one gesture. To work through an idea may take many separate gestures, producing something like variations. Alex Selenitsch

Widely exhibited artist, architect and concrete poet Alex Selenitsch explores the graphic potential of language in striking sequences of concrete poetry.

Selenitschs cross-disciplinary practice blurs the boundaries between poetry, visual art and design. His compositions focus our attention on our habitual mode of looking and reading; they invite us to look, hear and conceive our designed world afresh. D J Huppatz

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Alex Selenitsch is a Melbourne-based poet and architect, and for over 20 years was a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne. His creative practice ranges from literature and graphics to sculpture, furniture and architecture. His poems appear in artists books by Alexander Hamilton, John Ryrie, Jiri Tibor Novak, Peter Lyssiotis, Petr Herel and Marian Crawford. His work has been exhibited nationally and is held in various national and state public collections. A retrospective of his work, LIFE/TEXT, was shown at Heide MOMA, Melbourne, in 2016-17.