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Versingforms are poems from around the world that Antos Sivyh transcribes letter by letter to create visual images. At the recent show opening, there had also been a discussion on the role of poetry and its forms, a master class on calligraphy, and a sound interpretation of versingforms by Sound Lab.

Born in Minsk in 1999, Antos Sivyh is a visual artist, filmmaker, and inventor based in Łódź, Poland. He studied Visual Media at the European Humanities University in Vilnius (2017–2019) and has lived in Poland since 2019 as a refugee. His interdisciplinary practice spans calligraphy, video art, documentary film, urban games, animation, and participatory formats.

Since 2018, Sivyh has developed Versingforms — an experimental art form rooted in visual poetry and calligraphic traditions, where poems from various cultures are transformed into visual structures word by word. In this process, handwritten text evolves letter by letter until language becomes image. Versingforms function as actions rather than illustrations, often created live in public space and shaped through encounters with people, streets, and chance. His works explore language, displacement, fragility, technology, the city, and collective presence.

Active across Belarus, Lithuania, and Poland, Sivyh has been involved in multiple artistic and editorial initiatives. He was an editor of Vostrau Magazine (2018–2019), a “reporter” for the video art series Freedrinsk Clinical Rave (2018–2022), and conducted urban artistic research through Akvieduk (2018–2022). Alongside this, he initiated grassroots cultural activities, including building a Belarusian-speaking youth community during his school years.

In 2020, he founded Lodka Production in Łódź, producing independent films, site-specific projects, and video art. His projects include Gra w Ruch, a city-based performance game realized in seven European cities, as well as documentary films such as Przez Tory (2022), focused on Belarusian students in Łódź; infocused (Vilnius, 2019); and 1blin (2019), filmed in the Krasnapolle exclusion zone. His moving-image work combines documentary sensitivity with experimental and participatory approaches.

In 2024, Sivyh presented his first solo exhibition at the Museum of the Artist’s Book in Łódź and continues to develop new exhibition projects, with multiple shows planned for 2026. In parallel, he develops Outforms, a physical operating system based on handwriting, designed to rethink everyday and creative processes.

Poetry, for Sivyh, is not only language but a way of seeing reality. Through Versingforms, he asks whether every poem contains a visual form. By transcribing texts letter by letter, he reveals hidden structures within language, unfolding new relationships between writing, image, and perception. Often working in public space, he engages passersby in conversations about poetry, art, and the act of writing itself.

In the last 17 month, I Antos has been hosting and speaking at 16 events on culture, arts, poetry and technology

Can a word exist before it is understood? What does it mean to inherit a form you were never taught? Can a city notice you back? When does language turn visible? What makes a place begin?