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Between the Breath of Objects

New York, May 2026 – CHINCHINART and Symora Art are pleased to present Between the Breath of Objects, a group exhibition featuring Kyung Kim, Luping Wang, Silvia Muleo, Xuemeng Li, and Ziyi Zhang. The exhibition explores how objects, long understood as passive and inert, begin to register as active participants within a shared field of breath, time, and perception.

DATES

May 6 – 12, 2026

 

OPENING RECEPTION

Wednesday, May 6, 2026, 6 – 8 PM

 

VENUE

Nguyen Wahed

504 E 12th St, New York, NY 10009

 

CURATED BY

Jinyi Freya Xu and Shuhan Zhang

 

PRESENTED BY

CHINCHINART and Symora Art

 

ARTISTS

Kyung Kim, Luping Wang, Silvia Muleo, Xuemeng Li, Ziyi Zhang

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In contemporary conditions shaped by technological mediation and ecological awareness, the boundary between the human and the material has become increasingly porous. Objects no longer remain external to experience; they circulate through systems of touch, image, sound, and data, accumulating traces of use, memory, and affect. Within this expanded field, the exhibition asks: when objects enter into relation with human breath, understood as rhythm, presence, and duration, how might the distinction between life and matter be rethought?

 

Between the Breath of Objects approaches objects not as fixed entities but as relational formations shaped through interaction. Drawing on the idea of “the thing” as a gathering of forces, the exhibition frames each work within an unfolding ecology. Breath functions as both metaphor and medium, a temporal condition through which bodies, materials, and environments become entangled. What emerges is not representation, but a field of co-presence where objects seem to expand, contract, and resonate within space.

Installation Views

Artworks

These works move beyond objects as fixed forms, proposing a continuum where matter, perception, and time unfold through relation. Between the Breath of Objects invites viewers into a field of shared becoming, shaped by proximity, resonance, and transformation.

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Ziyi Zhang

06/07/2024 Loving Vincent, 2026

Oil and mixed media, text

17 × 21 × 1 in

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Ziyi Zhang

02/22/2025, 2026

Oil and mixed media

18 × 24 × 1 in

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Ziyi Zhang

06/16/2025, 2026

Oil and mixed media

14 × 12.5 × 1 in

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Silvia Muleo

Echo #1, 2025

Oil and oil pastels on canvas

36 × 24 in

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Silvia Muleo

Echo #2, 2025

Oil and oil pastels on canvas

36 × 24 in

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Silvia Muleo

White on White (concrete light), 2025

Oil and oil stick on canvas

20 × 20 in

Courtesy Symora Art. Photography by Echo Xu

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Luping Wang

Orchid Silver Necklace with Moonstone, 2026

925 sterling silver and moonstone

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Xuemeng Li

Untitled, 2024

From the series Contour of Mist

Platinum palladium print, walnut frame

22.4 × 11.7 in

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Xuemeng Li

Hibi, 2024

From the series Contour of Mist

Platinum palladium print, walnut frame

22.4 × 11.7 in

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Kyung Kim

Shadow’s Reverie, 2024

Oil on linen

16 × 12 in

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Kyung Kim

Left: The Hidden Moon, 2024. Oil on linen, 16 × 12 in

Right: Dawnlit Woods, 2025. Oil on linen, 28 × 24 in

Courtesy Symora Art. Photography by Echo Xu

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Kyung Kim

Midsummer Rhapsody, 2025

Oil on linen

16 × 12 in

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