International Residency Exhibition
Subject to…
Curated by Christine Yi-Ting Chen
August 28, 2026 – September 15, 2026
Subject to… considers how bodies are made recognizable through the systems around them, from technological protocols to cultural codes, and asks what that recognition demands in return. Drawing on Édouard Glissant’s “right to opacity,” the exhibition turns to what happens once something has already been made legible. A reading shapes what is expected of a body, but never exhausts what it can be. Across sculpture, performance, textiles, photography, and installation, the works resist the authority of that reading, withholding what is asked of them or opening onto meanings beyond those first assigned. Rather than resolving these tensions, they hold open the possibility of encounter without demanding complete transparency first.
https://www.narsfoundation.org/events/event/subject-to