Language is a constantly evolving, complex system of sounds and symbolic signs with the aim to communicate, where meaning is assigned to every sign or signal, yet wholly arbitrarily. In the process of understanding and transmitting thoughts, language serves as a mediator between speaker and listener. Consequentially, understanding is a key element of this process. However, the allocation of meaning to the received language causes the ambiguous nature of communication. Language resembles a code, to be deciphered by a recipient or interlocutor, that conversational partners must agree on.

Bianca Barandun investigates whether memory transcends language entirely and if it can be discussed without utilizing the notions of forms and colours.