Moments Of Living In Haste
October 10 - October 16, 2025
13 Grattan St, #402, Brooklyn, NY, 11206
New York - A Space Gallery is pleased to present Movements of Living in Haste, a short-term residency and exhibition unfolding within the Seaview Hospital Historic District, a decaying medical complex on Staten Island once devoted to healing and containment.
Built as part of an early twentieth-century public health initiative, Seaview was designed to isolate illness, discipline time, and structure recovery. Today, its corridors breathe through cracks; its red brick facades are consumed by moss and silence. What was once a monument to welfare and order has transformed into a living organism of rust, wind, and light—a ruin that continues to grow.
At the heart of Movements of Living in Haste lies a shared gesture: to walk into what has been left behind. The five participating artists—Yi-Han (Audrey) Chou, Qiaosi (Josh) Chen, Xinyi Gao, Arom Ju, and Cookie Xia—enter this landscape not as restorers but as mediums, gathering traces and building tenderness from the absurd. Within the cracks of Seaview, they find not emptiness but multiplicity—echoes of systems, gestures of care, and moments of rebirth
Yi-Han (Audrey) Chou's video installation [CHANCE] explores the tension between repetition and chance—how meaning accumulates through the act of layering and reconfiguration. Each loop functions as both an archive and an erasure, questioning what it means to document presence within spaces that have been forgotten. Through the interplay of sound and image, the piece reflects and shows the idea of “replay”, and how the process of how we archive what we see and hear in different ways.
Qiaosi (Josh) Chen’s Becoming reflects the ongoing reshaping of space and meaning through acts of accumulation, erasure, and transformation. By juxtaposing natural textures with urban symbols, the work constructs a hybrid ecology that exists between the artificial and the organic. Rather than documenting specific places, each composition reimagines the rhythms of occupation and decay through the language of collage. This work unfolds as an archaeology in progress—one that excavates not the past, but the continual processes of layering, regeneration, and renewal.
Cookie Xia’s Never Ever Sweet Home transforms ruin into
reflection through sound and intervention, where misunderstanding, fear, and tenderness coexist in what she calls “4D
art”—a dynamic language of emotional survival. Her practice seeks to visually articulate my understanding of reality and art in a direct,
experiential form, crafting immersive environments that invite viewers to reconsider the boundaries between reality and the real.
Xinyi Gao's Fusion of Time explores the juxtaposition between the devastated ruin and the continuous reshaping at the site. How the demolished concrete space experienced a transformation in texture, color and energy after years with the involvement of human activities. Concrete walls and rusty iron are given meaning by human creation.
Arom Ju gathers fragments from Seaview—fallen walls, leaves, and dust—to craft mobiles and abstract paintings where stillness and motion converge, evoking the fragile rhythm between confinement and release. Together, they reveal the tension between confinement and release, and the moment when something lifeless begins to breathe again.
Installation View
