
Sharded memories, fractured timelines, withheld explanations
Gaps and repetitions contain what is too painful, too dangerous, too numerous to resolve.
Interactive video
Nothing 05 is an arrangement of sharded stories and memories. Timelines are disrupted and explanations are withheld. Gestures, objects, and images resist immediate interpretation. The video is muted to refuse simplification into a digestible storyline for consumption. A silence that might be refusal or mourning. A repeated movement that could be ritual or disorientation. The gaps, the unexplained, the visual repetitions contain what is too painful, too dangerous, too numerous to fit into a neat form. Ambiguity discards demands for clarity or mastery. It actually protects complexity, nuances, and discomfort from being exhausted by explanations, working like a shield against extractive curiosity. Viewers must assemble meaning without translation, and accept that contradiction, absence, and rupture are themselves content, requiring active listening of the unsaid. Patience is needed for a non-linear delivery, humility in the face of discomfort, and an acknowledgment of what is withheld. They must sit in the uncertainty and resist the urge to pin down meaning. They must tolerate not-knowing, which becomes a kind of ethical engagement. They must. We do not need to decode everything, but to inhabit a space where nuance, silence, and opacity are part of the message.
General info
French name:
Nothing 05 (Load er)
Year:
2025
Technique:
Interactive video (no sound)
Dimension/Duration:
Full HD (portrait). 22 minutes (loop)
Availability:
yes
Credits
֍ Po B. K. Lomami
Presentations
֎ 2026.03.09-05.22 | Compartmental/Compartimental (solo exhibition), FOFA Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
֎ 2025.11.01-12.13 | Screensavers (solo exhibition), OPITCA – Centre d’art contemporain, Montreal, Canada
֎ 2025.10.01-10.08 | Body of Nothing: Silence, Avoidance, Compartmentalizationn (thesis defense/solo exhibition), Black Box, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Library
2026 – Po B. K. Lomami – Trailer
2026 – Po B. K. Lomami – Stills






2025 – Po B. K. Lomami – Body of Nothing: Silence, Avoidance, Compartmentalizationn (thesis defense/solo exhibition), Black Box, Concordia University
Photo credits: Po B. K. Lomami


2025 – Po B. K. Lomami – Screensavers (solo exhibition), OPITCA – Centre d’art contemporain
Photo credtis: Paul Litherland



2026 – Po B. K. Lomami – Compartmental/Compartimental (solo exhibition), FOFA Gallery, Concordia University
Photo credits: Laurence Poirier
