Yaoyao Li, Yang Ran, Yangchao Shen, Kya Su, Ximan Wang, and Gao Yuan.
Curated by Kya Su
Dates: 30 April – 22 May, 2026
Location: Arts & Cultural Building, Student Pavilion and beyond.

“The essence of a thing never appears at the outset, but in the middle, in the course of its development, when its strength is assured.”¹

In the uncertain present, we are cosmopolitan without a world. As artists, we might create a sympathetic holding space beyond strict binaries and bounded boxes, instead, places whereby people can feel themselves (in)visible. The works that comprise this project engender opportunities for feeling, specifically unexpressed emotions of the subconscious.

Unspeakable, the remaining crevices 不可言说之，仅存的缝隙 explores the third space, a transitional space that can be embraced, playable, or symbolized, a space that can generate new meanings.

Across the film program, the artists engage with the relationship between individual life experience and subjective rationality in social ethics. The project spans forms of video and independent cinema practice, utilising media as performance, as documentation, as intervention, as reflection. Brought together in this program, these works begin to speak to transformative strategies, of “Build and Resist” as an ethos. And too, to the gaps where people don’t see themselves, and crevices within which people fall into impenetrable silences.

How to settle down physically and mentally in displacement, in rupture, in the gaps? Through the program, the remaining gap held by the crevices responds to the power of ‘silent sound.’ The purpose of healing is not to become a defenceless, painless "new person," but rather to have enough courage and resources to touch our deepest wounds; enough clarity to examine whether we are turning towards love or away from life; and ultimately, to have the freedom to choose to engage in life and genuinely connect with others, even amidst fear.

¹Gilles Deleuze,Cinema 1: The Movement-Image. Trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986.