MEDICINE

Curators：Yu Wang，Wenxi Lei
Artists：Jinghan Wang, Ren Chen, Wen Yun, Xiao yang, Yanzhou Shen, Yinqi Yuan

Private View: 18th March 4pm.

Language has long shaped how distress is understood. What is often described as a
“psychological issue” is framed as a form of relatable sadness, while “mental illness” is marked as
something unsettling — an otherness that stabilises the boundaries of normality. This difference in
linguistic weight reflects an instinctive social defence mechanism: by defining what is “abnormal,”
society reassures and anchors its idea of what is “normal.”

These experiences are neither purely social constructs nor isolated biological conditions. The
realities of physiological suffering cannot be ignored, yet once they enter social discourse, they
become entangled with structures of power beyond pathology itself. Within modern systems of
productivity, individuals who cannot participate in established rhythms of collaboration are often
treated as residual figures — excesses within the machinery. Historically, institutions have
attempted to strip such individuals of interpretive agency, positioning them as passive subjects of
correction.

To question these power structures is not to reject the necessity of care. Rather, acknowledging the
frictions within the folds of the mind allows for a clearer boundary between scientific function and
human experience. Contemporary frameworks of intervention are gradually shifting beyond
mechanisms of social regulation, becoming points of support through which subjectivity can be
reconfigured. Destigmatisation lies not in denying illness, but in disentangling pathology from
structures of shame. When care moves beyond correction, individuals are no longer required to
pay a moral cost for biological limitation.

MEDICINE is an exhibition that does not seek to diagnose, judge, or console. Instead, it operates
as a space of observation, presenting artistic practices that engage with experiences of
vulnerability, systems of exclusion, and the persistence of dignity within overlapping structures of
definition.

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