Karolina Wiktor creates a new language born from absence   Karolina Wiktor’s Cartography of Motherhood at the Zachęta – National Gallery of Art in Warsaw brings together drawing, gesture, and sound to trace the artist’s experience of post-stroke aphasia through the lens of motherhood. Following a ruptured aneurysm and strokes in 2009, Wiktor rebuilt her practice around visual and concrete poetry, developing the Czcionka Braku (Font of Absence), a typographic system born of incomplete, illegible letters recorded during acute aphasia.   ‘Stroke and aphasia are highly complex conditions, and aphasia is among the most challenging disabilities overall. Rehabilitation must be holistic,’ the artist tells designboom , affecting not only speech but also writing, reading, counting, concentration, attention, and spatial understanding.…