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Gallery Vacancy is pleased to present Sustain, a solo exhibition by Alice Gong Xiaowen, on view from May 30 to July 5, 2025. The exhibition features a site-specific installation of acoustically sounding guqin strings, a constellation of cast glass sculptures, and a scene of translucent graphite prints. Writer R. Morris Levine details the exhibition’s central sound work, in this excerpt from his essay on the artist:
“Alice Gong Xiaowen builds three walls in a vacant gallery; hangs seven nylon-wrapped metal guqin strings, each of a different gauge; winds the strings to their proper tensions; and attaches the strings to solenoid magnets, tethered to a nearby computer. At first glance, Sustain (2025) appears to be a pristine minimalist installation. Michael Asher had torn through a gallery’s white-walls to expose the operations behind; Gong multiples the gallery’s walls to make its void unmistakable. At first listen, Sustain seems like a well-tempered...More
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Gallery Vacancy is pleased to present Sustain, a solo exhibition by Alice Gong Xiaowen, on view from May 30 to July 5, 2025. The exhibition features a site-specific installation of acoustically sounding guqin strings, a constellation of cast glass sculptures, and a scene of translucent graphite prints. Writer R. Morris Levine details the exhibition’s central sound work, in this excerpt from his essay on the artist:
“Alice Gong Xiaowen builds three walls in a vacant gallery; hangs seven nylon-wrapped metal guqin strings, each of a different gauge; winds the strings to their proper tensions; and attaches the strings to solenoid magnets, tethered to a nearby computer. At first glance, Sustain (2025) appears to be a pristine minimalist installation. Michael Asher had torn through a gallery’s white-walls to expose the operations behind; Gong multiples the gallery’s walls to make its void unmistakable. At first listen, Sustain seems like a well-tempered...More
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