Text in the Room, Deferred

_**Text in the Room, Deferred**_ curated by **Wang Jing** brings together six artists whose practices interrogate the fractures, vulnerabilities, and anxieties embedded in contemporary experience. Here, moving image is not a supplement to text but a primary medium—unfolding through bodies, flows, and time, mirroring the incompleteness of lived reality. Each work exists as a fragment, simultaneously subject and object, tracing trajectories within specific social and cultural terrains. **Cai Guo Jie** Working as a self-described "single soldier," Cai examines power boundaries within urban and territorial fissures. His works _Vertical Land_ and _Sea Route_ focus on the ecological and political consequences of "cross-boundary" disputes in Kinmen waters. By juxtaposing social realities with artistic interventions, his fragmented method resists closed narratives and proposes politics through discontinuity. **Liu Wei Wei** With a background in law, Liu collaborates with lawyers and factory workers to bring justice into artistic practice. Since 2024, he has lived alongside workers in a Shenzhen factory, transforming conflictual realities and legal processes into theatrical form. _The Unfocused Ones_ experiments with "image power": workers vote on whether their footage may be edited or used, exposing the fragile boundary between art and exploitation. **Weng Io Wong** Through stop-motion animation reassembled as video, Wong continues her exploration of "Macau Baroque." Her work navigates the paradox of colonial absence and presence, weaving together history, memory, and cultural entanglements. By mimicking what is lost, she forges connections with the ever-present "other" that shapes identity. **Wu Lao Bai** Exhibiting _Square_ and _Lovers_, Wu traces resilience at the margins of labor and gender. _Square_ follows two women dismissed during automation, documenting their solidarity in struggle. _Lovers_ chronicles an activist action against conversion therapy, where three red trucks traversed six cities. Together, these works ask whether connection remains possible amid systemic adversity. **Xu Tan** Since 2020, Xu has researched social psychological symptoms of depression, using empathetic interviews and repeated dialogues as method. His latest trilogy of videos focuses on rural women's mental states, revealing how their "abnormal speech" signals urgent realities ignored by society. **Yuen Nga Chi** Transitioning from family narratives to symbolic relations between humans and animals, Yuen's work centers on the Chinese white dolphin—once a mascot, now a metaphor for disappearance and fragility. Her images are suffused with loss and regression, embedding uncertain political gestures in everyday movements. The exhibition accommodates peripheral discourses of fracture, fragility, and anxiety. By situating these voices within the gallery, the exhibition insists they be observed, spoken, and contested—transforming the absence of text into a presence of image, relation, and debate.