This wool tapestry shows a statement alongside an image referencing a meme (a widely shared, often humorous image or phrase circulating online and carrying culturally recognisable meaning).

The work approaches language not as a neutral tool, but as a dynamic system in which meaning is formed through interpretation. Between what is said and what is understood lies a space where meaning is continuously negotiated. Misunderstandings and multiple readings are not failures, but essential to how language operates. At the same time, the piece situates this within a broader cultural pattern: the persistent promise that someone or something will eventually provide solutions. From religion projecting salvation into the future to contemporary tech culture placing its hopes in artificial intelligence, resolution is often deferred. Responsibility shifts away from the individual, and action is postponed.

The work raises the question of what happens to agency when solutions are constantly expected from external systems rather than created collectively in the present.

Eike König is a designer and artist whose practice engages language as both medium and subject. His work explores how meaning shifts through use, and how language shapes our understanding of the world.