On Voids

Delilah Sykes is a multidisciplinary artist who primarily works in sound, text and installation. Sykes’ exhibition On Voids uses silence as a way to examine deep human truths. She builds intimate worlds that explore presence and non-presence as a way to understand love, loss, and the often amusing nature of our world. With On Voids, Sykes builds an archive of silence. Unlike most archives however, she fills it not with documents and artefacts, but with a collection of ‘nothings’. How else might we find evidence that we have lived? Sykes has a magpie's eye for stories, objects and histories that can tell us an often forgotten version of ourselves. With projected text, an assemblage of shells, sound, and artist film, she asks: What is silenced? What was never said? What might we have left behind?