In a world fractured by instability, we navigate precariously between institutions and uncertain futures. As the self becomes performed, encoded, and externalized, how do we locate reality? When systems of meaning are both self-replicating and silently disciplinary, how might we resist? The works in this exhibition question the reliability of perception, rejecting aesthetic comfort, and attempt to present the liminal, the indeterminate, and the forgotten. The limen is the pause before decision, the hum within a system, and the brief shimmer when reality loosens its hold. We inhabit a space of flux—unnamed, unstable, full of friction. Perhaps existence was never a stable state, but rather a process of continuous becoming. Therefore, it is precisely through cracks and hesitation that our perception becomes sharp.
In the Limen presents 10 emerging artists across painting, drawing, installation, sculpture, and photography. These works engage with social discourse, political intimacy, and fragmentary structure. It seeks to hold a space for presence not yet defined and spoken. Viewers are not asked to decode or interpret—but to enter the traces hidden beneath clarity.
Artist: Calvin Guo, Hairong Jiang, Yilin Jin, Yinuo Jin, Angel Niu, Junxian Ouyang, Stephanie Sun, William Wang, Xindi Wu, Xinran Zhou
Curator: Iris Yu