Beginning with Philip K. Dick’s How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later, UBIK’s Non/Sense pushes language through translation, mistranslation, abbreviation and Lorem Ipsum. Across the floor, words become fragments and patterns, creating a work that cannot be read from one position and shifts between communication, image and spatial form.

Non/Sense explores the shifting relationship between language, meaning and visual communication, examining how words can be transformed, fragmented and reinterpreted until they begin to operate beyond their original meaning. Taking as its starting point science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick's essay How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later, the work investigates the instability of language and the systems through which meaning is constructed.

Through a process of translation, mistranslation, abbreviation and the introduction of Lorem Ipsum, passages of text are progressively altered, questioning the boundaries between information, interpretation and abstraction. These transformations become the foundation for an expansive typographic intervention across the exhibition floor. Words and phrases are stretched, compressed, fragmented and rearranged, gradually shifting from recognisable language into visual patterns, rhythms and spatial compositions.

Rather than presenting text as a fixed sequence to be read from beginning to end, Non/Sense invites visitors to encounter language through movement and perspective. From ground level, fragments appear as individual marks and partial messages, while elevated viewpoints reveal different relationships between the elements. The installation resists a single, complete reading, allowing meaning to emerge, disappear and reform according to the viewer's position.

Extending across the shared exhibition space, Non/Sense establishes a visual ground that connects the individual installations through a common spatial field. Rather than existing solely as an independent work, the floor intervention becomes part of the exhibition's wider scenography, creating unexpected relationships between the surrounding projects as audiences move through the atrium.

Presented as part of In Other Words, the work considers what happens when language is subjected to repeated acts of translation and transformation, exploring how communication can become visual structure and how distortion, repetition and fragmentation might generate new forms of expression.

About UBIK
UBIK is a conceptual artist and publishing designer based in New Delhi, India. Their practice is rooted in the making of texts, images, videos and sculpture, interrogating the relationships between objects and their environments.

Moving between different forms of artistic production, UBIK explores the possibilities of constructing critical yet humorous narratives, drawing on the visual language and contradictions of contemporary culture. Their work engages with the shifting boundaries between image, text, object and meaning.