Hollow is, first and foremostly, a question that troubles image-object relations. Hollow is, secondly, an artist book cum monograph that charts Vytautas Kumža’s practice, and the development of a singular yet open-ended visual language.

While Hollow composes itself around the potentials and limitations of the photographic ‘problem’, it likewise dispenses with any strict notion of the photographic. Through Kumža’s myriad experiments and treatments concerning the image, the work extends into realms of sculpture, performance and installation, in turn challenging the delineation of each medium. Sensitive to the format of a book, its dimensions and physical heft, Hollow is a joyous discovery of the image-object ‘event’.

Threaded through the publication is ‘X marks the spot’, a series of short fictions written by Elaine ML Tam.