"Fragment" by Wenyu Zheng
Resin
All four parts together：18in✖️18in✖️20.75in “Persit": 9in✖️9in✖️18in. “Coalesce":
Fragment is not about repair, nor does it follow a linear narrative. It begins with an acknowledgment: structures that grow out of rupture do not need to be resolved—they already hold meaning in their fragmented state. Rooted in personal reflections on emotion, memory, and lived experience, the work explores how internal landscapes are assembled through pieces rather than wholes. At the center of the installation, a cluster of sculpted hands reach upward in varied gestures, embodying desire, vulnerability, and silent resistance. They function as connectors—bridging the tiled terrain with a sense of response. Between the slices, ripples, and structures, a quiet consciousness begins to grow: a reflection on how one assembles, supports, or approximates a sense of wholeness from within oneself, under the pressure of reality. Composed of resin ripple tiles and hand-sculpted forms, the installation employs digital modeling and casting to embody fluid structure in static material. The five sub-works—Bottom, Persist, Emerge, Eclipse, Coalesce—represent emotional states rather than sequential chapters. The work as a whole invites viewers to navigate shifting light, fractured form, and spatial tension—not to resolve, but to dwell within the unfinished. Fragment offers a space where incompleteness is not failure, but presence.
Resin
All four parts together：18in✖️18in✖️20.75in “Persit": 9in✖️9in✖️18in. “Coalesce":
Fragment is not about repair, nor does it follow a linear narrative. It begins with an acknowledgment: structures that grow out of rupture do not need to be resolved—they already hold meaning in their fragmented state. Rooted in personal reflections on emotion, memory, and lived experience, the work explores how internal landscapes are assembled through pieces rather than wholes. At the center of the installation, a cluster of sculpted hands reach upward in varied gestures, embodying desire, vulnerability, and silent resistance. They function as connectors—bridging the tiled terrain with a sense of response. Between the slices, ripples, and structures, a quiet consciousness begins to grow: a reflection on how one assembles, supports, or approximates a sense of wholeness from within oneself, under the pressure of reality. Composed of resin ripple tiles and hand-sculpted forms, the installation employs digital modeling and casting to embody fluid structure in static material. The five sub-works—Bottom, Persist, Emerge, Eclipse, Coalesce—represent emotional states rather than sequential chapters. The work as a whole invites viewers to navigate shifting light, fractured form, and spatial tension—not to resolve, but to dwell within the unfinished. Fragment offers a space where incompleteness is not failure, but presence.
Resin
All four parts together：18in✖️18in✖️20.75in “Persit": 9in✖️9in✖️18in. “Coalesce":
Fragment is not about repair, nor does it follow a linear narrative. It begins with an acknowledgment: structures that grow out of rupture do not need to be resolved—they already hold meaning in their fragmented state. Rooted in personal reflections on emotion, memory, and lived experience, the work explores how internal landscapes are assembled through pieces rather than wholes. At the center of the installation, a cluster of sculpted hands reach upward in varied gestures, embodying desire, vulnerability, and silent resistance. They function as connectors—bridging the tiled terrain with a sense of response. Between the slices, ripples, and structures, a quiet consciousness begins to grow: a reflection on how one assembles, supports, or approximates a sense of wholeness from within oneself, under the pressure of reality. Composed of resin ripple tiles and hand-sculpted forms, the installation employs digital modeling and casting to embody fluid structure in static material. The five sub-works—Bottom, Persist, Emerge, Eclipse, Coalesce—represent emotional states rather than sequential chapters. The work as a whole invites viewers to navigate shifting light, fractured form, and spatial tension—not to resolve, but to dwell within the unfinished. Fragment offers a space where incompleteness is not failure, but presence.