05/03/2026
日花仔 jit-hue-á / A Slow Parting
4.27.2026 - 5.1.2026
In 日花仔 jit-hue-á / A Slow Parting, Yun Hsiang (Sandy) Wang reflects on her experience of traditional Taiwanese funerary rituals, particularly the ceremonies of the “first seven days.” Participating in these rites, she observes that they are not solely for the departed, but for the living, structured as a way to process the fear of forgetting. The work emerges from a desire to dwell within longing and to slow the inevitability of parting through sustained, attentive acts.
Drawing from Les Rites de Passage and its concept of liminality, Wang situates these rituals within the threshold between separation and transition. The first seven days become a temporal and emotional space where presence and absence coexist, where the boundaries between holding on and letting go remain unresolved.
Through photography, installation, and performance, Wang constructs a series of gestures that echo and reimagine these ritual structures. Working from her position as both a Taiwanese artist and a granddaughter, she engages in acts of repetition, preserving, reenacting, and reconfiguring moments tied to memory and loss. These gestures attempt not to fix what is fleeting, but to remain with it.
The exhibition unfolds as an ongoing negotiation with grief: a space where remembering and forgetting are not opposites, but intertwined processes. By extending the duration of parting, Wang creates a fragile continuity that resists closure and instead lingers in the unresolved presence of what has been lost.
