The relationship between images and words

The rebus is the place where images and words intersect, showing all the ambiguities inherent in the processes of signification. When I began to analyse the changes in our linguistic habits due to our using of the Internet, the form of the rebus seemed to me the most intriguing way to ironically bring out the linguistic short-circuits that we lightly create when we talk about our experiences in virtual spaces. Indeed, the rebus for me is the ideal graphic form for reasoning about the misunderstandings of language because it transforms them into images. In fact, to really understand what's inside a rebus, you also must solve it, and to do this you have to break down letter by letter the depicted images.

From an interview with Simonetta Fadda, 2019