Echoes of Connection (performance: listen, before i go)

<Dots gather to form lines, and lines begin to flow somewhere.>
Echoes of Connection invites viewers to enter a space where the visible is not the only way of knowing. Rooted in the artist’s lived experience as a young Asian minority in Geneva, the exhibition begins with a question: how do we perceive one another, and how is perception shaped by systems of sight, emotion, and social judgement?
In a society dominated by the visual, this body of work turns towards the sensory and the ephemeral—towards sound, time, and the traces they leave behind. The sounds we hear may not remain in space, but they linger within us—as quiet imprints in memory. Words left unsaid, fleeting emotions, passing glances, and the weight of someone’s gaze all become marks of presence, residues of connection.
The artist’s research-based practice seeks to listen to what cannot be seen and visualise what is heard, tracing the emotional and perceptual afterimages that structure our encounters with the world. Through sonic landscapes, temporal gestures, and layered installations, the work navigates the fragile boundaries between perception and memory, sensation and social structure.
As an attempt to visualise the unheard and the unseen, this work navigates the delicate intersections between emotion, sensory experience, and social systems. It invites reflection on how a visually driven society conditions perception—and how such frameworks give rise to subtle yet pervasive forms of exclusion.