My Void Friend, Kinska

On display from 19 November 2026
Free and all welcome
SPACE Ilford

After a profound loss, everything stopped. Even the clocks.

I was pierced by grief. A hollow space appeared inside me, filled with an immeasurable sadness. Something had changed. A part of me was missing, and from that absence another presence emerged: Void.

At first, Void is an uninvited guest, a squatter who slips in and takes up residence. Over time, he becomes a constant presence, changing with the passing days. Bigger or smaller, softer or spiky, he has a way of keeping you guessing. He flickers in and out of sight, only to pop up again. He may become quieter, less visible, but he never truly disappears.

Somewhere along the way, instead of trying to make Void leave, I made room for him.

Kinska gives Void a body, a character, and a place in the world. Moving between ceramic forms, sketches and fragments of text, Void inhabits a surreal landscape where absence becomes tangible and the intangible finds form. 

The works trace the shifting contours of grief, offering a room in which loss can be encountered, imagined and held.

‘My Void Friend’ extends beyond the personal. Through a series of workshops, Kinska invited the community to explore their own experiences of loss, creating ceramic shrines as personal homages.

Brought together in the exhibition, the shrines form a collective landscape of individual stories, revealing the many ways love endures in the shape of absence.