Half Wind, Half Still
July 12, 2025 - July 25, 2025
13 Grattan St, #402, Brooklyn, NY, 11206
New York, NY — A Space is pleased to present Half Wind Half Still, a group exhibition exploring transformation through openness. At its core is the concept of the “unfinished”—not as a flaw, but as process, tension, and generative strategy. In a world where certainty feels elusive, the works in this exhibition remain in flux: open, unfinalized, and alive with the possibility of change.
Dottie Lo Bue’s Small Gardens float between worldbuilding and unraveling, offering painted landscapes that invite close, quiet observation. Shaohan Fang’s photographic series Portrait of a Family stages fictional reunions to explore familial absence and the lingering desire for connection.
In Paltry Fettle IV, Céline Browning transforms her child’s outgrown clothes and postpartum hair into thread-bound sculptures that speak to the invisible labor of caregiving. Ziyan Bai’s stitched work, Cosmos, maps memory through drifting birds, shadowed trees, and shifting topographies—mythic symbols rendered in thread on muslin.
Other works move between body and environment, permanence and erosion. Yerang Moon’s ceramic sculpture, Vault, suggests a body in flux—glazed, swollen, and scratched by change. Dani Sujin Lee’s Loss of Words uses porous ceramic vessels to hold the tension between language, memory, and time. In Untitled (Ripple Study), Ally Yanxiu Luo presents a trembling hand sculpture that ripples water in response to movement, tracing unseen systems of cause and effect.
Goujirou’s Ghost Production features bleached human hair forms that evoke ghostly remnants of care and utility. In Because I Might Not See No. 5, Xuecong Wang captures the delicate balance of solitude and intimacy through a table setting from a date, rendered in watercolor. Alexa Huang’s Self embraces erosion and instability—her paintings, made from marble dust and pigment, serve as meditations on materiality, memory, and transformation.
Together, the works in Half Wind Half Still ask:What if incompletion is the most honest response to our time? Through fracture, slowness, and attentiveness, the artists embrace becoming as a radical creative act, offering not resolution, but the possibility to keep sensing, making, and imagining.
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