Kanazawa Art Gummi, 25 Apr - 20 July
Photo by 中川暁文/Nakagawa Akifumi
The Meaning of No Meaning is an experimental installation exploring how unexpected narratives and meanings emerge when seemingly unrelated fragments are brought into new relationships.
Drawing on digitised archives of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century engravings, the work brings together images removed from their original contexts to create fourteen short collage animations.
The fourteen animations are played continuously in a randomised order, with no fixed beginning or end. As their order changes, new connections emerge between them, forming an endless, evolving story.
First presented at Kanazawa Art Gummi, Japan, in 2026, the installation used a translucent screen with a receipt printer positioned behind it. As each animation began, the printer produced a random selection of keywords associated with that animation, returning the unfolding story to fragments of language.
For its presentation at The Art Station, Suffolk, UK, later that year, the installation was adapted into a two-screen arrangement. Receipts generated during the Kanazawa exhibition were displayed alongside the original archival engravings, becoming part of the material carried forward into this new context.
Kanazawa Art Gummi, Kanazawa, Japan
25 April – 20 July 2026
Photography: Nakagawa Akifumi
The Art Station, Saxmundham, UK
12 September – 24 October 2026
Photography: Douglas Atfield