In Other Words examines transformation as a mode of thinking. A process through which images, materials, stories, and gestures are carried across forms, contexts, and languages. The exhibition approaches translation not as replication, but as a generative act: a movement in which meaning is inevitably altered, softened, distorted, or reimagined. Rather than seeking fidelity, In Other Words foregrounds slippage, misreading, and reinterpretation as productive conditions. Here, to translate is to transform — to allow something to become other than itself, to accept loss, excess, and mutation as part of the journey between forms.

Participating artists are invited to work from something existing — an image, object, text, memory, technique, or reference — and to reframe, rephrase, or re-materialise it into another visual or conceptual language. The emphasis is not on origins, but on what happens in between.

This curatorial inquiry asks: What is preserved when something is translated, and what is inevitably changed? Can an idea survive its movement across mediums, or is transformation its true condition?

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Ultimately, In Other Words proposes that meaning is never fixed, only continually retold — carried forward through echoes, revisions, and acts of becoming something else.

In Other Words