Meaning presents fifteen works, selected from the pool of video art shortlisted or supported by the Han Nefkens Foundation in the past ten years. Together, they make visible a relative world constructed by various forms of language such as spoken language, sign language, eye contact, images, lights, and fuel containers. Through Gabriel Mascaro’s perceptive yet distant lens, Rodrigo, the protagonist in Ebb and Flow, keeps stepping into the “impossible” world, dancing happily to the drums of nightclubs, despite his deafness, AIDS, poverty, and other challenges that he faces. The exhibition Meaning departs from here. Most of the fifteen artists were born in the 1980s, while a small number were born in the 1970s or the 1990s. They share the experience of drastic changes brought about by technological innovation worldwide; at the same time, they are all deeply concerned with a particular place, capturing the gaps in thinking, and representing individual limitations and struggles in concrete ways for the audience. Thus it begins the exploration of “meaning.” A little girl in Sabah, Malaysia, begins to realize the society’s definition of women because of a word from her male friend. Camera algorithms based on the East Asian population encounters a fatal problem when applied in Africa. Peace is often mistaken as the default during peaceful times; however, the horrific massacre in Yoonsuk Jung’s work, the female asylum-seekers in northern Iraq who have escaped ISIS and pray on their knees every day as captured by Erkan Özgen, and the 6,000 unexcavated mass graves and 16,000 missing individuals as results of a genocide in Maya Watanabe’s calm footage all illustrate one fact: wars and the threat of wars have never left us. All the cognitive boundaries that we are accustomed to and taken for granted are subject to another interpretation and possibility in a parallel universe. Just like in Reversal at the end of the exhibition, wisps of ghosts arise from the soil ravaged by colonization, capital control, and large-scale industrialization, engulfing everyone trapped on the land. Even those who try to break free have marks left on their body.