Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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Videos
Night Stroll
2024Night Stroll, 2023-2024, HD video with stereo sound, 22 minutes. This excerpt is from the 22-minute video Night Stroll. It features an anonymous adolescent in a decaying domestic landscape, intertwined with elements of construction sites—pylons, sirens, and scaffolding. The character speaks directly to the camera, performing a monologue that addresses the concept of borders—whether between nations or between the self and the other. It also appropriates legal language drawn from immigration scrutiny. Night Stroll channels the context of the Chinese love song Ye Lai Xiang (Fragrance of the Night), which was censored by the Republic of China in the 1940s due to the singer’s complex identity. The lyrics of the song are woven into the monologue and appear later in the piece.
Added on: July 20, 2025
Endearing Insanity
2022Endearing Insanity, 2021-2022, HD video with stereo sound, 9 minutes. This excerpt is from the 9-minute video Endearing Insanity. It features the opening scene, in which an anonymous adolescent—trapped in various enclosed spaces such as a cabinet, microwave, and sink—performs a monologue while waiting for someone to visit. The text, drawn from anonymous online message boards seeking encounters, oscillates between sincerity and absurdity. Blending elements of horror and erotica, Endearing Insanity explores the intersection of sensuality and terror. The work embraces and interrogates contradiction, blurring the boundaries between the seductive and the repulsive, the private and the public, and the self and the other.
Added on: July 20, 2025
A Recital
2020A Recital, 2019-2020, HD video with stereo sound, 4 minutes. A Recital draws loose inspiration from Japanese writer Motojiro Kajii's (1901–1932) short story Corpses Concealed Under the Cherry Blossom Tree. An adolescent is portrayed playing piano beneath the cherry blossoms, which evoke a sense of blooming sensuality and an almost primordial desire, as they perform "Am Meer". This musical composition, derived from a poem by German poet Heinrich Heine and set to music by Franz Schubert, delves into profound themes of the existential interplay between the body and the self, experiences of alienation, and contemplations on mortality.
Added on: July 20, 2025
Recess
2020Recess, 2019-2020, HD video, silent, 4 minutes. In Recess, a poignant sense of melancholy pervades a dreamlike tableau portraying an adolescent in a high school uniform, alone in a timeless, cave-like classroom. The scene features curtains gently swaying in the breeze, ceiling fans persistently spinning overhead, and clouds drifting endlessly across a blue sky framed by windows. At the rear of the classroom, delicate butterflies flutter on a bulletin board, imparting a transient quality to the environment. A sunbeam penetrates the room's obscurity, almost like a rope, illuminating the solitary figure. Recess heightens the sense of vulnerability, underscoring the adolescent's isolation while fostering a contemplative atmosphere.
Added on: July 20, 2025