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Even the wind is cautious
two-person exhibition by Felisa Nguyen & Ching-Wei Wang (Way)

Climate Control
2831 Mission St, San Francisco, CA

November 8 – December 20, 2025
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 “Nguyen and Way’s collaboration starts as a translation project through which one translates the other through a language they do not understand. They present an excerpt of narrative writing drawn onto the gallery wall, which is written and translated back-and-forth between Chinese, Vietnamese, and English, allowing meaning, which exists beyond text, to surface through the process. This approach to translation extends into their respective and shared sculptural and installation practices, where boundaries of authorship and ownership are deliberately obscured.

Both the narrative works and installation explore themes of personal and collective histories, and cultural taboo. The works oscillate from playful or juvenile contexts to revealing the underlying violence embedded into objects and their surroundings. Each piece holds a particular relationship to labor—from delicate, exacting gestures, to forms that require endurance, to an engagement with inherited or invisible systems of work.”


Bonsai
Printed plastic, steel spring, tree
91 x 31 x 12 inches
Bonsai (detail)
Printed plastic, steel spring, tree
91 x 31 x 12 inches


Dragons* (double doors)
found objects; jade
10 x 6 x 12 inches


Dragons* (hydra)
found objects; jade
5½ x 9 x 7 inches


No Such Thing
writing excerpt, graphite on wall
installation variable



Grass Bed
Single-channel HD video installation, tatami mat
19 minutes, 10 seconds  



Grass Bed
Single-channel HD video installation, tatami mat
19 minutes, 10 seconds  



Grass Bed (salon interior) (clip)
site-specific video performance
at Vietnamese nail salon, San Francisco
13 minutes, 47 seconds



Về nhà means go home
jade Hello Kitty® pendants
28 ½ x 9 ¼ inches
An Inheritance
nails, graphite on paper (set of 40)
85 x 50 inches