Essential Question
How can curating a cross-cultural exhibition in Tokyo about the “void” function — not as emptiness — but as an active space where meaning, form, and perception are created?
Artist Statement
A multidisciplinary artist working across painting and mixed media, raised between Shanghai and Tokyo. The exhibition unfolds across three interconnected sections:
- Form Before Completion — 未满 / 空 / 生成
- Cycles of Flow — 流动 / 循环
- Fragmented States of Being — 未定 / 破碎 / 模糊存在
Works
- The In-Between — 山在其间 / 山のあいだ
- What Remains of Light — 遗光
- A Presence in Flow — 流之气
- Before the Wave Arrives — 潮未至 / 未だ満ちぬ波
- Goes Around Comes Around — 往复之间 / めぐりの中で
- Unsettled Form — 未定之形 / 未だ定まらぬ
Artistic Process
Hands-on engagement with Japanese craft — painting daruma dolls (one eye made with a wish, the second when it is fulfilled), folding origami cranes, preparing matcha — became a way to understand the culture through making. Collecting leaves and blossoms into temporary, intentionally ephemeral compositions echoed wabi-sabi and mono no aware: impermanence, seasonality, the quiet beauty of natural materials. Visits to the Kyoto National Museum, the National Art Center Tokyo, the KYOCERA Museum and the Raku Museum, and to Kiyomizu-dera, Enkō-ji and Kinkaku-ji, shaped an attention to how asymmetry, stillness, and natural framing guide perception.