Exhibition + Workshop
Feast of Senses
11 May 2025
Winns Gallery
Curated by Danlu Peng & Kelly Frank
The Feast of Senses is an experimental exhibition that reimagines the gallery as a multi-sensory space. The artworks explore how artists draw inspiration from the senses, offering perspectives shaped by sensation and expressing ideas through the language of touch, sight, sound, and smell.
Expanding on this exploration, the two artists behind the project have transformed the gallery into an open, participatory environment. Through a specially designed workshop, participants are invited into the heart of the creative process — engaging in research, making, curating, and exhibiting alongside featured artists.
Guided by the artists, participants follow the senses as pathways into creativity, opening new ways of thinking through drawing. Here, the process is the exhibition. Participation is the artwork. Rooted in the spirit of feasting, the project celebrates abundance, connection, and presence — bringing together diverse voices to explore how the senses ground us in the moment and shape how we respond to the world.
The Feast of Senses dissolves the boundary between viewer and maker, presenting the workshop as a form of collective practice — one that builds community, challenges traditional ideas of authorship, and redefines what a gallery can be.
Video by Antoni Lee
Photo by Antoni Lee
Photo by Jingyi Tong
Breaking into Anew, 2024. Fabric, wood, nails, velcro tape, fishing line
Interactive invitation: You are invited to participate in the “breaking” process, unknit the sweater, and create something new on the frame.
The sweaters in this piece, are each a found object with its own unique history, originating from different countries and crafted using diverse knitting techniques by various manufacturers. These garments, selected by the artist, hold stories and memories that invite release or transformation. As the audience unknits each sweater, they actively engage in reshaping its narrative, reclaiming the power to intervene with emotions and stories embedded in every thread. By reworking the yarn onto new canvases, the piece uses art as a powerful tool to intervene in emotions and narratives, allowing participants to transform memories and reclaim the narrative embedded in each thread.
Breaking in Cycles, 2024, Video
Day 2
Day 6
Breaking in Cycles, 2024, Selected stills from pre-exhibition process
Breaking in Cycles, 2024. Mixed media installation with performance, video, and interactive audience engagement
Performance rule: Daily, the artist breaks the fixed ceramic pieces from the day before and starts fixing them again.
Interactive invitation: You are invited to sit down and play with the ceramic fragments following the instructions on the table. Please wear protective glasses and gloves.
Breaking in Cycles, 2024, Installation view, Photo by Jingyi Tong
The artist acquired a pile of broken domestic ceramics, with no knowledge of their origins, previous owners, or the events that led to their breakage. Through the daily cycle of fixing and breaking, the artist is not only building a personal attachment to these previously unknown objects but also testing the connection between herself and her work. This process explores the artist’s relationship with her creation, questioning the emotional bonds formed through the act of repair. Each act of breaking creates new possibilities daily, offering a fresh start to reimagine the forms. This daily cycle poses another question, whether the creator can strengthen her sense of self by actively controlling the objects rather than being controlled by them. The fixing takes place in the intimacy of her home, while the breaking happens in the fire exit corridor—a space used in emergencies to escape. This location becomes a symbolic "exit" from domestic life and its memories.
Breaking in Cycles, 2024, Performance, Photo by Yiwei Xu
The performances in the gallery space and in the park are extensions of the daily practice recorded in the video, inviting the audience to intervene in this daily cycle. This piece began before the exhibition culminated on the final day, leaving an uncertain outcome—whether the fragments will be repaired, rebuilt into something new, or remain broken.
Breaking in Cycles, 2024, Performance, Photo by Jingyi Tong
