Corpus

EXHIBITION

Corpus

SEPTEMBER 3–10, 2026

NGUYEN WAHED GALLERY
504 E 12th St
New York, NY 10009

An interdisciplinary exhibition featuring works by Yiming Tang and Xinzi Luo.

about Corpus

Works by Yiming Tang & Xinzi Luo

Curated by Eliza Xinping Tan

SOUNDSCAPE & MUSIC DIRECTED BY

IVY JIN

CORPUS is an interdisciplinary exhibition featuring works by Yiming Tang and Xinzi Luo, curated by Eliza Xinping Tan and presented in collaboration with LUMO.

Centered on the idea that “what reaches completion begins to die,” the exhibition explores the body, desire, memory, belonging, and the unfinished nature of human connection. Visual art, soundscape, and live performance come together to create an immersive environment in which sound and image continually reshape one another.

the Exhibition

WHAT REACHES COMPLETION BEGINS TO DIE.

CORPUS begins with a simple proposition: the first boundary we possess is skin. Yet skin is never a sealed wall. Heat, touch, desire, pain, memory, and the presence of others continually move across it. The body becomes less an autonomous object than something porous, exposed, and permanently altered through encounter.

Rather than treating incompletion as failure, CORPUS considers it a condition of vitality—an open structure in which difference remains negotiable and new relationships can still emerge. Across the works of Yiming Tang and Xinzi Luo, the exhibition explores distance, attachment, memory, and the possibility of connection without demanding closure or wholeness.

SOUNDSCAPE

AS A SECOND MATERIAL

SOUNDSCAPE & MUSIC DIRECTED BY

IVY JIN

Developed under the soundscape and music direction of Ivy Jin in collaboration with LUMO Entertainment, the exhibition’s sonic environment is conceived not as an accompaniment to the artworks, but as a second material within the exhibition. Sound moves physically through space and through the body, extending CORPUS’s exploration of boundaries, proximity, and encounter.

Rather than treating music as an illustrative layer, the soundscape functions as a form of spatial dramaturgy, shaping the rhythm of the exhibition and the shifting relationship between body, artwork, and architecture. Quadraphonic sound design by Silvan Tang and original music by Raven Tao extend the exhibition’s ideas of porosity, interruption, distance, and becoming into real time and space.

THE ARTISTS

YIMING TANG
XINZI LUO

Yiming Tang approaches incompletion through suspension. His paintings place figures within psychologically charged and unstable spaces, where gestures, fragmented communication, and nonlinear narratives suggest relationships that remain unresolved. His images often resemble suspended frames from a larger cinematic sequence, something has happened, or is about to happen, but the full story never arrives.

Xinzi Luo approaches incompletion through possibility. Across painting, sculpture, and mixed-media installation, stairways, bridges, passages, shelters, and fragmented architectural structures emerge within shifting terrains. Her spaces move between arrival and departure, landscape and architecture, memory and imagined futures.

CORPUS remains between these two positions: suspension and possibility, distance and connection, without insisting that either resolve into a complete whole.

IVY JIN

MAKING SPACE FOR DISCIPLINES TO MEET

Founder, LUMO Entertainment
Soundscape & Music Director

CORPUS

Ivy Jin is a New York and Los Angeles based cultural producer, music director, and founder of LUMO Entertainment. Her practice moves across music, performance, visual art, live events, and cultural production, with a focus on how different disciplines can share the same space without losing their distinct voices.

For CORPUS, Jin approached sound not as background music, but as a form of spatial dramaturgy. The four-channel soundscape was structured around movement, silence, distance, and attention, allowing each visitor’s position in the gallery to shape what could be heard.

Her role also extended beyond sound. As a cultural producer, Jin worked across artistic direction, production, collaboration, and public presentation—connecting the artists, curator, technical team, and audience into a shared framework while allowing each discipline to remain independent.



ELIZA XINPING TAN

MAKING SPACE FOR WHAT REMAINS UNRESOLVED

Independent Curator · Art Advisor
Cultural Strategy Consultant
Curator, CORPUS

Eliza Xinping Tan is a New York–based independent curator, art advisor, and cultural strategy consultant. Trained in Strategic Design and Management at Parsons and Visual Arts Administration at NYU, her curatorial practice explores the body, memory, desire, and shifting forms of belonging. She approaches exhibitions as spaces of proximity, where different histories, languages, and bodies can come close without needing to be fully explained or translated.

For CORPUS, Tan brought together the works of Yiming Tang and Xinzi Luo not to resolve them into a shared conclusion, but to allow two distinct experiences to meet in space. Across painting, installation, movement, and sound, she treated the exhibition as a condition for ambiguity, recognition, discomfort, and encounter allowing distance itself to remain visible rather than disappear.

Her practice balances research with intuition. Tan is attentive to the systems that quietly shape an exhibition—placement, movement, attention, and spatial distance while preserving room for uncertainty and surprise. For her, curating is less about speaking for artworks than creating the conditions in which viewers can approach them, and perhaps leave with their sense of the world slightly shifted.

SILVAN TANG

MAKING SOUND MOVE THROUGH SPACE

Sound Designer · Composer · Sonic Artist
Quadraphonic Sound Designer

CORPUS

Silvan Tang is a sound designer, composer, and sonic artist working across music technology, spatial audio, performance, and installation. Trained in composition and music technology, her practice has gradually expanded from writing music toward shaping how sound is recorded, processed, positioned, and experienced within physical space.

For CORPUS, Tang designed a four-channel soundscape that treated sound as something with direction, distance, movement, and presence. Rather than functioning as background, the sound shifted with the gallery environment and the position of its listeners. Her approach often begins with fragments—breath, texture, distant or ambiguous sounds, which slowly crossfade into new sonic spaces, allowing one atmosphere to dissolve into another without a clearly defined boundary.

Tang’s current practice continues to move toward sonic art and interactive systems, exploring spatial audio, audience participation, live processing, and installation. She is interested in what happens when listening becomes an active choice: how movement changes sound, how sound reshapes space, and how coincidence, synchronization, and participation can influence the meaning of an experience.

XINZI LUO

LANDSCAPES THAT NEVER FULLY ARRIVE

Multimedia Artist · Painter · Sculptor
Artist, CORPUS

Xinzi Luo is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, sculpture, printmaking, and socially engaged practice. Her work often begins with landscape, but the spaces she constructs rarely behave like conventional scenery. Roads, bridges, stairways, shelters, and fragmented architectural forms move between memory and imagination, suggesting places that feel familiar yet remain impossible to fully locate.

Luo approaches landscape as a bodily experience rather than a background. Influenced by Chinese landscape traditions, calligraphic gesture, mural techniques, and her experiences across different cultural environments, she works with layered pigments, translucent surfaces, and shifting structures. Architecture and nature overlap in her compositions, creating spaces that feel simultaneously inhabited and unfinished—soft and rigid, remembered and still becoming.

In CORPUS, these suspended landscapes became part of a larger encounter between image, sound, body, and movement. Rather than resolving into a fixed destination, Luo’s work invites viewers to pass through, pause, and reorient themselves. The landscape becomes a temporary threshold: a place shaped by traces of memory, physical presence, and the possibility of somewhere not yet reached.

YIMING TANG

BETWEEN SIGNAL AND RESPONSE

Painter · Visual Artist
CORPUS

Yiming Tang is a New York–based painter whose work explores the incompleteness of human connection and the ways response shapes our sense of presence. Born in Chengdu and trained in painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, Tang places figures within psychologically charged spaces, unstable relationships, and narratives that resist complete resolution.

His paintings often operate like suspended moments from a film. Something has already happened, and something else seems about to begin, yet the image remains caught in between. Bodies may occupy the same space while appearing subtly misaligned; gesture, saturated color, and carefully controlled composition create tension without allowing the scene to fully collapse or resolve.

In CORPUS, this unresolved distance became part of the exhibition’s larger conversation around proximity, incompletion, and encounter. Tang’s work asks what it means to wait for recognition from another person—and whether any response can ever fully confirm that we have understood one another. Rather than completing the exchange, the paintings hold viewers inside the interval between reaching out and being answered.

CREDITS

ARTISTS

Yiming Tang · Xinzi Luo

CURATOR

Eliza Xinping Tan

SOUNDSCAPE & MUSIC DIRECTOR

Ivy Jin

QUADRAPHONIC SOUND DESIGNER

Silvan Tang

MUSIC COMPOSER

Raven Tao

SOUNDSCAPE TECHNICIAN

Muyao Liang

GRAPHIC DESIGNER

Anyi Zhao · Junxin Jiang

PROJECT COORDINATOR

Hongjia Lin

PHOTOGRAPHERS

Dennis Ziyang Wang · Haodong Wang · Tianzheng Yun

Administrative Assistant
Ashton Wang · Bing Yu · Jojo Li

PRESENTED BY LUMO ENTERTAINMENT