Signs wander like ants across the opposing walls, so that – from a certain vantage point – they fuse into a single straight line, seeming to leap across the space between the walls. Nests of signs counteract the corners of the room. The rows of signs run diagonally and so in opposition to the vertically/horizontally structured space. The signs’leap, the obliteration of the corners and the oblique rows of signs create a spatial context, a correlation between the spaces of the written and the real. They form, in real space, an optical space of writing alone. (Burkhard Brunn, Catalogue: Axel Malik – Raum im Raum [Space in Space], Frankfurt, 2015)
