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# Catch Autumn Knight’s Nothing #26: The Potential of Nothing is Everything at the Wallach Art Gallery
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/autumn-knight-nothing-26-the-potential-of-nothing-is-everything-wallach-art-gallery-columbia/
- Published: 2023-03-03T21:29:42.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:13:18.000Z
- Description: This experimental and multidisciplinary solo exhibition in New York City exploring “the sweetness of doing nothing” closes on March 12.
- Author: Wallach Art Gallery
- Tags: Announcement, Exhibition Announcement, New York, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-large, #Import 2025-11-24 09:29 (2023, 2024, part 1)

Autumn Knight’s [*Nothing #26: The Potential of Nothing is Everything (wallach)*](http://bit.ly/3kyeevy?ref=hyperallergic.com) at Columbia University’s Wallach Art Gallery closes on Sunday, March 12\. This solo exhibition — referencing Jenny Odell’s 2019 book, *How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy* — hovers between the exploration of and reflection on the Italian phrase, *dolce far niente* or “the sweetness of doing nothing.” An experimental and multidisciplinary project, the installations throughout the gallery include new videos accompanied by wallpaper derived from drawings, a series of polaroids with images of the artist’s performances, object compositions, digital drawings, and a rotating platform.

Knight’s video works aim to reflect an exploration of nothingness in separate moments with various objects handled in ways that reject the labor of meaning. As a practice, she tends to use found materials within a given environment to produce collaged moments that make available individualized constructions of meaning for the viewers who choose that labor. Chosen for their ease of access, the objects — a deflated balloon, a record turntable, and a puppet — assist in bringing to life a conversation between inertia, liveness, and sweetness. The objects are accompanied by new texts — observations, small poems, little plays, facts, and prose — written during Knight’s visits and residencies in Kingston, Jamaica; Venice, Italy; and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Nothing #26 intends to operate as a companion to concepts explored in over a decade of the artist’s live performances, where the content performs the labor of anticipation and curiosity is driven by open-ended dialogue with audiences.

Knight is the recipient of the Rome Prize (2021–2022) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2022). Her work has been presented at various institutions including The Studio Museum of Harlem; Institute for Contemporary Art (VCU), Richmond, Virginia; Human Resources, Los Angeles; Akademie der Kunst, Berlin; Portland Institute for Contemporary Art; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; American Academy of Rome; On the Boards, Seattle; Abrons Arts Center, New York; The Kitchen, New York; and Shedhalle, Zurich.

The exhibition is free and open to the public.

**To learn more, visit** [**wallach.columbia.edu**](http://bit.ly/3kyeevy?ref=hyperallergic.com)**.**

*Nothing #26: The Potential of Nothing is Everything (wallach)*, an immersive gallery-wide installation, was commissioned by the [Wallach Art Gallery](https://bit.ly/3ZzLu4d?ref=hyperallergic.com). These exhibition programs are made possible with support from the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Endowment Fund, the Charina Endowment Fund, and the gallery’s patrons.