In Wandering Position (1994), Yukinori Yanagi released a single ant onto the floor, loosely surrounded by four beams suggesting a provisional boundary. Following the insect's erratic movement, he traced its path with pink chalk, slowly translating the ant's wandering trajectory into a fragile drawing on the floor. The result was an irregular, uncontrolled pattern that made visible the ant's silent physical journey and the unpredictable logic of its movement through space.
Created at a time when Yanagi was reflecting on how national identity is organized across geopolitical borders, the work proposes the ant colony as a speculative counter-model to these rigid constructions. For the exhibition Erratic Fields, Wandering Position reappears through a new commissioned version of the drawing. Viewed from the distance of three decades, the work takes on a new meaning: the traced movement of the ant no longer only questions the artificiality of territorial boundaries, but also highlights the forms of collective vital life that develop beneath them. The ant's solitary path refers to the broader dynamics of the colony, an adaptive and self-organizing ecological system whose survival depends on cooperation, movement, and the continuous negotiation of space.