00 Even the wind is cautious Two-person exhibition by Felisa Nguyen & Ching-Wei Wang (Way)
November 8 – December 20, 2025
Climate Control
2831 Mission St, San Francisco, CA
November 8 – December 20, 2025
Climate Control
2831 Mission St, San Francisco, CA
Nguyen and Way’s collaboration starts as a translation project through which one translates the other through a language they do not understand. They present an excerpt of narrative writing drawn onto the gallery wall, which is written and translated back-and-forth between Chinese, Vietnamese, and English, allowing meaning, which exists beyond text, to surface through the process. This approach to translation extends into their respective and shared sculptural and installation practices, where boundaries of authorship and ownership are deliberately obscured.
The artists employ subtle gestures, allowing familiar symbols and materials to carry the weight of meaning. Both the narrative works and installation explore themes of personal and collective histories, and cultural taboo. The works oscillate from playful or juvenile contexts to revealing the underlying violence embedded into objects and their surroundings. Each piece holds a particular relationship to labor—from delicate, exacting gestures, to forms that require endurance, to an engagement with inherited or invisible systems of work.
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01. Dragons*
02. Bonsai
03. No Such Thing
04. Grass Bed
05. Ve nha means go home
06. Bomb (44 folds)
07. An Inheritance
05 Về nhà means go home 29 x 10 inches Jade Hello Kitty® pendants