Amit Leblang is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher working across video, sculpture, text, print, drawing, and installation. Her practice grows out of living between languages and pays close attention to moments where meaning hesitates: mistranslations, stutters, repeated gestures, and fragments of speech. Guided by philosophical and political questions, she collects fragments. These instances, found by chance or contrived, serve as raw material for her projects, to be folded, deconstructed, and reassembled. Intimacy and distance shape her approach, while language, memory, and identity recur as unstable objects. Holding tension between the banal and the uncanny in tension, her works invite slow, layered reading.
In her doctoral project, The Image Tongue: Translation as Visual Art, Leblang rethinks translation as an artistic, material, and intermedial process. Moving beyond its conventional association with linguistic equivalence, the project approaches translation as a space of negotiation in which meaning cracks, repeats, or drifts. Intermediality becomes a way to think of speech as image and sound as sculpture. By focusing on how meaning migrates across systems, such as linguistic images, typography, stutters, silences, non-verbal sounds, and visual or sculptural forms, the research positions translation as a sensory and creative act. Combining artistic experimentation with theoretical inquiry, Leblang works with personal archives, field recordings, and intergenerational narratives, treating translation as an embodied, ideological, and dialogical practice, and as a method for image-making, resistance, care, and world-building.
