The instance of reading is commonly understood as a route to communication, an action performed that, if all goes according to intent, binds text to meaning. A condition of legibility then, would appear basic to the undertaking, but as each of the artists in the exhibition deliberates, the allusion to reading is sufficiently muscular. Whether signified through obscured artifacts of language or the presence of textual structures, reading is slyly liberated from its role as translator — that always active intermediary poised between message and meaning — to instead hover at the juncture of engagement.