Art as a Dwelling of Silence

Language is the house of being, says Heidegger. It turns out that silence is the primordial, original, and originating phenomenon of language. It seems we are facing a contradiction in action. Is not language what is said or written? How can silence also be language, and in a radical way, language par excellence, without which every sign, signal, written or spoken word becomes irrelevant? If silence is a phenomenon – in the phenomenological sense of the term – insofar as it shows or manifests itself and the way in which it shows itself, then it is in the saying of silence, in its multiple expression, that we find being itself, in general, and the being of language, in particular.