Stay With The Murmur
July 2, 2025 - July 9, 2025
13 Grattan St, #402, Brooklyn, NY, 11206
New York & Manchester — A Space Gallery and ArtOrb, in partnership with Pink Gallery (Manchester), are pleased to present Stay with the Murmur, a group exhibition inviting artists to linger in the pre-linguistic: where winds pulse, machines hesitate, plants emit silent currents, and relational textures flicker in low light. Here, murmur does not mean quietness, but a state before language—an entanglement of signals, tensions, and gestures that resist clear interpretation. A dual-city exhibition, resonating murmurs and glimmers across East and West. Before language takes shape, let us meet in the murmurs. Drawing from the philosophy of intra-action, Stay with the Murmur rejects the notion that entities exist before their relations. Every object, sound, and body emerges through fleeting connections. Meaning becomes a resonance, not a fixed statement—a shimmering possibility that unfolds only in proximity.
The exhibition begins with works that amplify what is usually imperceptible. Shibo Chan’s Breathe Instrument transforms unconscious breath patterns into a sound-based language, algorithmically mapping long and short breaths into layered sonic compositions. Fu Hsuan Wang’s Whisper: Bound by Aesthetics suspends ceramic stomachs from silicone bands, inviting viewers to trigger subtle tremors—a fragile choreography where each touch becomes an ephemeral connection.
Carolina Trinker’s Circuit No.1 and DigiKnit Tapestry #2 weave hybrid textiles into looping structures of code, exploring the language of interconnectivity through tactile circuits. Jiatong Han’s Unfinished Perception constructs a generative four-channel video between water, human, and AI, foregrounding misalignment as a site for open-ended dialogue. EJ Lee’s English and Decoding confront the arbitrariness of written language with collages in international phonetic English, forcing viewers to slow down and question the construction of meaning itself.
Xiaohan Luo’s A Broken Voices draws inspiration from a fine line in Hamlet, exploring the relationship between sound and silence. By recording strangers’ lip movements during conversation and enlarging silent lips in classical paintings, the work examines how silence is embodied both in daily life and in art, foregrounding the subtle movements that speak without words.
A pre-symbolic intelligence takes form in Manlin Zhang’s Intelligence in Motion – Dreaming Butterfly, where oil on claybord captures the moment before thought crystallizes into logic. Yuqi Cao’s Mountain series offers a surreal 3D landscape of a slowly rotating mountain, centering nature’s transformation and vitality beyond human perspective. Minhan Lin’s When the Tree Speaks combines tree-guided drawing with conversations about family memories of trees, weaving stories and gestures across continents into a shared surface of ecological intimacy. Di Cao’s Particle Prowess uses fluid particle simulations to evoke disorientation and the beauty of blurred identity, creating a poetic language of memory and transformation.
Trauma and silence are confronted in Lin Cheng’s Silent Absence, an animated pseudo-documentary exploring the intergenerational cycle of domestic violence in China, revealing how silence and fear perpetuate harm. Mo Cheng’s Mistakes celebrates imperfection through manipulated errors in calligraphy-inspired video, questioning society’s obsession with flawless automation.
In Lexiong Ying’s Step By Step: A Walk to Nowhere, walking sounds recorded across urban and natural terrains guide audiences into a meditative roaming, inviting them to detach from stress and become present with each step. Zhengwei Fan’s Silent Watch depicts a solitary church in a vast field, its red roof a quiet beacon of faith and longing, standing still in tranquil anticipation.
Together, the works in Stay with the Murmur do not resolve into a single story. They pulse, hesitate, and reverberate with each other, refusing finality. In this exhibition, meaning is not a destination—it is a condition of shared becoming, where the quietest signals hold the deepest potential for connection. Presented simultaneously at A Space Gallery in New York and Pink Gallery in Manchester, Stay with the Murmur forms a dual-city dialogue extending across geographies and disciplines.
Installation View
