Feels Like an Idiom    installation view

Feels Like an Idiom
two-person installation by Felisa Nguyen & Ching-Wei Wang (Way)

ModA, 227 E 24th St, New York, NY

June 27 – July 6, 2025
(installation views)

“Nguyen presents a variety of found objects holding cultural and colonial symbols, whether ambiguous or explicit; objects on a spectrum between profane and sacred. From mass-produced commodities to spiritual markers, the works play with Western assumptions of Asia, subverting the typical role imposed onto racialized people as cultural experts on their own otherness, and instead turns oneself into an unreliable narrator.”.





















Bonsai
steel beam, printed plastic, spring, tree
96 x 5 x 8 inches




















Another Mountain
cobblestones, carved soapstone
dimensions variable





















Promise of an Orchid
colour pencil on steel
24 x 24 inches






















Something I Can Hold
aluminum cans, black tea, milk
dimensions variable






















Dragons* (lost puppies)
found objects; jade
6 x 8 1/2 x 8 inches