Unformed Praxis
2024
Photo by Shaoyu Zhang
๐๐๐๐๐ก๐จ? ๐๐๐๐๐ก๐จ! ๐๐ฝ๐ฟ is an exhibition about the conceived piece and its incompleteness, showing labels as artwork.
๐๐ฏ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐๐ณ๐ข๐น๐ช๐ด is the negative image of what I had been able to produce from the positionality of a designer and educator occupied with a full-time position in a North American private institution. These thinking come together through folding onto one and the other, in a world as a sea of infinite continuous folds. The form of the label disrupts the conventional flat, rectangle-shaped, hard, and intact exhibition label. In the folds of space, movement, and time are traces of these half-formed projects, abandoned, self-censored, in the negative space of existing as a Resident Alien while negotiating the narrative identity of a member of the polysemic Chinese diaspora.
:iidrr Gallery, New York, NY