n0! is a 3D video animation portraying sports equipment as individual characters playing without their human users. They interact with their surroundings, breaking the rules of what is possible and, at the same time, making fun of their common use.

Azul De Monte (she/they) is a visual artist from Buenos Aires, currently based in Berlin. They work across animation, drawing, sound, and writing, often combining these media into time-based works.

Their practice investigates how meaning is produced, stabilised, and repeated through language, objects, and everyday gestures, and how these processes sustain systems of hierarchy, control, and exclusion. They are particularly interested in acts that appear harmless or neutral—such as making a promise—and in unfolding their emotional, political, and structural implications. By isolating these gestures, they explore how they connect to larger networks of power and obligation.

Animation is a key tool in De Monte’s process, allowing objects and concepts to become fluid, unstable, and performative. They often treat objects as characters capable of acting against their expected roles. At the core of their work is storytelling as a way of creating empathy with non-human entities and listening to what they reveal about our world. Animation becomes a filter through which reality can be reimagined, questioned, and momentarily reorganised.