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

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.

Ziyi Zhang
06/07/2024 Loving Vincent, 2026
Oil and mixed media, text
17 × 21 × 1 in

Ziyi Zhang
02/22/2025, 2026
Oil and mixed media
18 × 24 × 1 in

Ziyi Zhang
06/16/2025, 2026
Oil and mixed media
14 × 12.5 × 1 in

Silvia Muleo
Echo #1, 2025
Oil and oil pastels on canvas
36 × 24 in

Silvia Muleo
Echo #2, 2025
Oil and oil pastels on canvas
36 × 24 in

Silvia Muleo
White on White (concrete light), 2025
Oil and oil stick on canvas
20 × 20 in
Courtesy Symora Art. Photography by Echo Xu

Luping Wang
Orchid Silver Necklace with Moonstone, 2026
925 sterling silver and moonstone

Xuemeng Li
Untitled, 2024
From the series Contour of Mist
Platinum palladium print, walnut frame
22.4 × 11.7 in

Xuemeng Li
Hibi, 2024
From the series Contour of Mist
Platinum palladium print, walnut frame
22.4 × 11.7 in

Kyung Kim
Shadow’s Reverie, 2024
Oil on linen
16 × 12 in

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

Kyung Kim
Midsummer Rhapsody, 2025
Oil on linen
16 × 12 in


