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The diptych "Broken Language" (inkjet on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308g) was created. iated with the use of these fonts. This typeface family was generally associated with social movements of exclusion and reactionary political extremism during turbulent periods in history, being present, for example, in the Protestant Reformation and Nazi propaganda, as well as in the symbols of contemporary Mexican gangs and far-right Aryan movements. "Broken Language" accentuates in its composition the difficulty of reading this type of font and, by showing the letters "A" and "Z" side by side, symbolically encompasses the entire alphabet and thus the whole range of language, which becomes inseparable from its uses in a socio-political context. actured" and directly refers to the graphic style of the font design. Ianês attempts to demonstrate, however, that this is also reflected in the socio-political y handwritten scripts dating back to before the Middle Ages. The name "Fraktur" derives from the German word forby overlaying 99 letters "A" on the left panel and the same number of letters "Z" on the right panel, all in 99 different fonts from the Fraktur and Blackletter families that were digitised for use on computers. In 2013, Ianês began researching the history of these typeface families, which

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