‘Even the wind is causious’ an exhibtion by Felisa Nguyen and Ching-Wei Wang (Way). . Ching-Wei Wang (Way) is a Taiwanese artist based in New York. Her practice explores the poetics and embedded politics of Taiwan’s unresolved post-war statehood, with attention to the layered identities shaped by colonial histories, geopolitical tension, and ideological frameworks. This condition of cultural ambiguity informs her engagement with collective memory, image governance, and the construction of language. With a background in writing and dance, her work draws on inferred language and embodied movement. She works with poetry, translation, performance, installation, archival images, and artist’s books. . Felisa Nguyen is a Canadian artist of Vietnamese descent, living and working in New York City. Her practice is rooted in lived experience as a dispossessed body in the imperial core. Nguyen’s work is concerned with the dark matter — the untranslatable, the ambiguous, the feelings of loss and absence — in between documented accounts of the past. In her work, quiet gestures reveal the pivoting functions of objects which simultaneously obscure and uncover illegible histories. She examines the malleability of collective and personal memory surrounding orientalism, colonialism, the family, and incarceration, through objects which range from explicitly to ambiguously culturally coded.
