Silent Narratives: Are words necessary to express art?

silent narratives

Silent Narratives: Are words necessary to express art?

silent narratives
Do we need words to understand art displayed in a space?
After all, art is an unspoken expression created by the artists; it’s a feeling and understanding of an artist’s life, mood, and experiences displayed for us to feel, understand and experience things that come naturally to us and to which we can connect. 
So, do we need an explanation of an art form before entering a museum space? Doesn’t it ruin the experience?!
And with the explanations, we sometimes need help understanding art; instead of trying to experience, we end up trying to solve the puzzle of how the write-up is linked to the art form.
As said by Olafur Eliasson in the Abstract series of Netflix:
“Museums write huge explanations to ensure people get it, but you sometimes end up feeling that I must be really stupid since they have to over-explain everything.”
You usually enter the space already thinking, I am not getting it, or you have questions about the whys, whens, and whats, sometimes making you lose the essence of the art and the feelings they excrete.
The observer is smart enough to co-produce the narrative of art, which lets them experience something different. So, why not skip the words and let our minds and brains do the rest?!

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