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Balcony Whispers: Fragility, Ritual, and the Interdisciplinary Body

Siyuan Meng

Yinzhe Qu&Aaliyah

At the heart of Balcony Whispers was a meditation on fragility, articulated through a precise attention to materials. Meng experimented with printing her photographs on handmade papers, each surface chosen for its porous texture, its tendency to absorb, crease, or tear. The fragility of the paper became part of the image itself, embodying the vulnerability and impermanence that the work sought to reveal.

Balcony Whispers: Fragility, Ritual, and the Interdisciplinary Body

Siyuan Meng

Yinzhe Qu&Aaliyah

At the heart of Balcony Whispers was a meditation on fragility, articulated through a precise attention to materials. Meng experimented with printing her photographs on handmade papers, each surface chosen for its porous texture, its tendency to absorb, crease, or tear. The fragility of the paper became part of the image itself, embodying the vulnerability and impermanence that the work sought to reveal.

Balcony Whispers: Fragility, Ritual, and the Interdisciplinary Body

Siyuan Meng

Yinzhe Qu&Aaliyah

At the heart of Balcony Whispers was a meditation on fragility, articulated through a precise attention to materials. Meng experimented with printing her photographs on handmade papers, each surface chosen for its porous texture, its tendency to absorb, crease, or tear. The fragility of the paper became part of the image itself, embodying the vulnerability and impermanence that the work sought to reveal.

Blandine Martin and the Textile Poetics of Time

Blandine Martin

Clara Voss

Architecture gave me a deep awareness of space, form, materials, concepts and the idea of “home” as both a structure and a feeling. Textiles, often seen as domestic or feminine materials, allows me to work with these concepts that is tactile and so versatile .

Blandine Martin and the Textile Poetics of Time

Blandine Martin

Clara Voss

Architecture gave me a deep awareness of space, form, materials, concepts and the idea of “home” as both a structure and a feeling. Textiles, often seen as domestic or feminine materials, allows me to work with these concepts that is tactile and so versatile .

Blandine Martin and the Textile Poetics of Time

Blandine Martin

Clara Voss

Architecture gave me a deep awareness of space, form, materials, concepts and the idea of “home” as both a structure and a feeling. Textiles, often seen as domestic or feminine materials, allows me to work with these concepts that is tactile and so versatile .

The Digital Other Within

Hanbing Fang

Clara Voss

The tension between the live space and the screen image is not incidental—it is the heart of the work. The piece challenges the viewer’s sense of spatial and psychological coherence, evoking both fascination and discomfort.

Fang’s interest lies in the unstable relationship between identity and embodiment in the post-human era. Drawing from feminist theory and digital ontology, Illusive Lover questions how subjectivity is fractured, reproduced, and looped through mediated systems. Her “illusory lover” is not merely a digital alter ego, but a reflection of how selfhood is constantly performed, simulated, and surveilled. The viewer, in turn, becomes part of this loop—both witness and participant in a digital intimacy that resists resolution.

The Digital Other Within

Hanbing Fang

Clara Voss

The tension between the live space and the screen image is not incidental—it is the heart of the work. The piece challenges the viewer’s sense of spatial and psychological coherence, evoking both fascination and discomfort.

Fang’s interest lies in the unstable relationship between identity and embodiment in the post-human era. Drawing from feminist theory and digital ontology, Illusive Lover questions how subjectivity is fractured, reproduced, and looped through mediated systems. Her “illusory lover” is not merely a digital alter ego, but a reflection of how selfhood is constantly performed, simulated, and surveilled. The viewer, in turn, becomes part of this loop—both witness and participant in a digital intimacy that resists resolution.

The Digital Other Within

Hanbing Fang

Clara Voss

The tension between the live space and the screen image is not incidental—it is the heart of the work. The piece challenges the viewer’s sense of spatial and psychological coherence, evoking both fascination and discomfort.

Fang’s interest lies in the unstable relationship between identity and embodiment in the post-human era. Drawing from feminist theory and digital ontology, Illusive Lover questions how subjectivity is fractured, reproduced, and looped through mediated systems. Her “illusory lover” is not merely a digital alter ego, but a reflection of how selfhood is constantly performed, simulated, and surveilled. The viewer, in turn, becomes part of this loop—both witness and participant in a digital intimacy that resists resolution.

Bissy Riva’s Forest of Meaning

Bissy Riva’

Clara Voss

Rendered in oil on a tall wooden panel, the work is physically commanding—over two meters high—and emotionally immersive. Riva’s brushwork is deliberate but never static. Her lines twist, fold, erupt. Color is used not just to construct space, but to charge it. Flame orange crashes against deep cobalt; acidic greens pulse alongside muddy reds. Each shape seems alive, leaning into or pulling away from the others, like foliage, or spirits, or memories.

Bissy Riva’s Forest of Meaning

Bissy Riva’

Clara Voss

Rendered in oil on a tall wooden panel, the work is physically commanding—over two meters high—and emotionally immersive. Riva’s brushwork is deliberate but never static. Her lines twist, fold, erupt. Color is used not just to construct space, but to charge it. Flame orange crashes against deep cobalt; acidic greens pulse alongside muddy reds. Each shape seems alive, leaning into or pulling away from the others, like foliage, or spirits, or memories.

Bissy Riva’s Forest of Meaning

Bissy Riva’

Clara Voss

Rendered in oil on a tall wooden panel, the work is physically commanding—over two meters high—and emotionally immersive. Riva’s brushwork is deliberate but never static. Her lines twist, fold, erupt. Color is used not just to construct space, but to charge it. Flame orange crashes against deep cobalt; acidic greens pulse alongside muddy reds. Each shape seems alive, leaning into or pulling away from the others, like foliage, or spirits, or memories.

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