Von Hyin Kolk (b. 1997 New York) explores how mistranslation and fragmented comprehension give rise to new narratives. Drawing from her experience as the child of Cantonese-American immigrants, her paintings emerge from misinterpretations of Cantonese phrases. Point at a Deer, Call it a Horse (Wordboil Motherfeed) borrows its title from an ancient Chinese idiom. The phrase has become a metaphor for the deliberate distortion of truth - originating from a Qin dynasty court anecdote in which an official called a deer a horse to test the loyalty of the emperor's ministers. Rather than correcting her own mistranslations, Kolk treats them as the foundation to create new myths and non-linear stories.
Kian McKeown (b. 1999, New York, NY) is a sculptor and draftsman whose work exists in a space of subtle wrongness - stretching or inventing objects that stray from their expected use. Interested in scale, awkwardness, and bodily relation, McKeown transforms utility into absurdity.