Co-Living: In the Crevices of Light

In the crevices between light and shadow, between order and chaos, we dwell under the same sky—close, yet never without distance. Co-Living: In the Crevices of Light unfolds like a contemporary duet, where Peng Yong’s meditative strokes meet Wang Xiaoshuang’s urban textures. It is their shared response to the idea of “symbiosis”—not as harmony or conflict, but as a state of mutual pull, echo, and co-construction, where coexistence is no assumed but continuously shaped.

Here, “symbiosis” is no longer a poetic abstraction, but something tangible—found in materials, rhythm, color, and space. It is the pause on a canvas, the light seeping through architectural cracks, the breath between city fragments, and the fragile yet real tethering between people. Between the inward and the outward, the still and the fluid, Peng and Wang offer us a triptych of how we co-inhabit the contemporary world:

Co-habiting Space emerges through Wang Xiaoshuang’s abstract reconstructions of urban fragments. Drawing from architectural textures and site-specific interventions, his works evoke a psychological landscape of future cities. His canvases resemble aerial views of urban sprawl—fragmented buildings, streams of light, and layered textures in tension and balance. Like the cities they depict, his compositions are in constant flux—building, deconstructing, and renegotiating the relationship between people and space.

Interpersonal Symbiosis flows through Peng Yong’s quiet discipline and meditative practice rooted in Eastern philosophy. His works are acts of inward contemplation—each repeated stroke a breath, a chant, a gesture of mindfulness. His is not a spatial expansion, but a distillation of spirit—a mapping of subtle, often overlooked emotional frequencies in everyday life. Between the lines, one senses the resonance, distance, and unspoken understanding between individuals.

Yet symbiosis is rarely seamless. In the redefinition and softening of boundaries, the exhibition also reveals the tensions, imbalances, and negotiations inherent in co-existence. Cities may eclipse light; intimacy may harden into enclosure. When the utopian vision of symbiosis collides with reality’s limits, art steps in—not to resolve, but to probe, to stretch, and to imagine anew.

Co-Living: In the Crevices of Light is not an exhibition about harmony, but a sincere question: how do we live together? Here, silence and noise share the same room. Abstraction and form meet in dialogue. Discipline mirrors fluidity. Through Peng Yong and Wang Xiaoshuang’s practices, we are invited to reflect—what does symbiosis mean in a world of constant motion and ever-shifting relations?

Curated by Aileen Moka