The Movies of My Dreams: "Words, words, words"

Back in my honors English class in high school, we read Hamlet and my teacher had a real fixation on these lines from Act 2, Scene 2:

Polonius: What do you read, my lord?
Hamlet: Words, words, words.

Recently I've been thinking a lot about words, or rather language. I've gotten really interested in the symbols in language and how an assortment of letters (really symbols) can stand in for objects, people, feelings, descriptors, etc. I've also been thinking about how language can be really deceptive. With words with double meanings, used for lies, etc., I'm interested in the fluid nature of language and if there is ultimate truth in words or if they are just symbols.

These ideas are something I'd really like to articulate in an exhibition and I'm researching different artists that would be relevant to this subject. I've just barely scratched the surface and one artist in particular that I'm particularly fond of for this topic is San Francisco-based artist Tauba Auerbach. Her works primarily deals with possibilities and shortcomings of language (perfect!) and views language as a system of symbols (double perfect!). She is a recipient of the SECA award and was just recently shown at the Wattis.

Below are works that I really love and is part of my imaginary check-list.