/Exhibition/
Lithic Coordinates
Role: Curator
Artists: Chuanduan Chen, Huanzhe Hu, Kun Juliet Wang, Tingru Chen, Yinghan Zhang, Zhanyi Chen
Time: 2026/4/3-2026/4/10
Address: Art Cake, 2nd Floor Studio 10, 214 40th St, Brooklyn, NY 11232
Stone is never still. In Lithic Coordinates, geology is no longer a fixed foundation but a mutable system through which contemporary life sediments itself. Digital traces, atmospheric conditions, bodily experiences, and emotional residues accumulate into shifting strata, forming an artificial geology of the present. Here, memory behaves like sediment, the body resembles terrain, and the atmosphere becomes an archive of ongoing transformation.
To think with stone is to think with time—not as linear progression, but as compression, erosion, and delay. Material and immaterial begin to collapse into one another: the digital condenses into mineral-like structures, the sky becomes a site of inscription, and infrastructures leave emotional residue. What emerges is a speculative cartography in which perception itself is unsettled, continuously navigating between formation and dissolution.
Rather than presenting geology as origin, the exhibition approaches it as process. Bodies, technologies, and environments fold into one another, generating unstable yet generative conditions of coexistence. The mineral is no longer inert, the digital no longer immaterial; instead, both participate in an ongoing crystallization where memory, matter, and mediation converge.
Press Release
Art Show | “Lithic Coordinates”, Group Exhibition at Art Cake
