Unformed Praxis

2024

Photo by Shaoyu Zhang

𝙇𝙖𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙨? 𝙇𝙖𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙨! 𝙏𝘽𝘿 is an exhibition about the conceived piece and its incompleteness, showing labels as artwork.

𝘜𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘗𝘳𝘢𝘹𝘪𝘴 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