Eriko Miyata’s eerie multichannel video installation ”A song from void”, reflects on the ways contemporary internet culture reshuffles an already idealized and fetishized portrayal of Japanese culture. Stemming from the artist’s own struggle to cope with the image projected onto herself as a Japanese woman, the artist addresses a phenomenon often called “Japancore”, an algorithmically induced blend of music genres such as vaporwave or city pop, nostalgic images of Japanese landscapes, female pop singers or 1980s anime aesthetics. By using a personal archive to train an AI engine, the artist translates the notion of void that the imagery conveys. At first glance the project is visually and conceptually similar to Pierre Huyghe et Philippe Parreno’s Ann Lee project – the artists bought a female 3D character from an animation studio at the turn of the 2000s, which was then used by various artists to project meaning into an empty “shell” and address her virtual condition. But Miyata’s work proceeds in the opposite direction. Building onto a very personal and subjective perspective, the project enables her to digest and critically address a genuine stigma. Reversing the positive associations these forms might convey, she inducing a deep sense of sadness and melancholy, mediated through the sensory features of the work.