re.riddle

recheng tsang: Of hours

December 14, 2024 - January 11, 2025

Opening Reception: Saturday, December 14th from 5-7pm

Gallery Hours: Tues - Sat 11am - 5pm
Minnesota Street Project, Room 204
1275 Minnesota St., San Francisco

re.riddle is pleased to present Of Hours, a solo exhibition of work by ReCheng Tsang. The opening reception is on Saturday, December 14 from 5-7pm. The exhibition runs through January 11, 2025.

EXHIBITION STATEMENT

re.riddle is pleased to present Of Hours, a solo exhibition by ReCheng Tsang that delves into the intricate relationship between labor and memory through the repetitive gestures inherent in her work with porcelain and fabric. Tsang invites us to consider how the act of repetition —through stitching and shaping—might ‘inscribe’ time into the work itself. The artist challenges us to ponder how repetitive gestures may potentially alter the nature of memory. 

Tsang perceives her artistic practice as a kind of temporal inscription. She states, “I am reflecting on the physical actions involved in my process: each repetitive motion, from stitching fabric strips onto canvas to coiling vessels and weaving. They are a collection and slow accumulation of actions and days, a way of marking time, recording the landscape, recording particular moments in my experience of time.” Tsang’s hand-sewn abstract maps, intricate textile assemblages, and porcelain sculptural reliefs represent archives of her daily life, encapsulating the richness of her experiences in both urban and natural environments. She translates these experiences and memories into carefully constructed forms and repetitive shapes, recalling the sumptuous textures of feathers, scales, and snakeskin.

A significant influence on Tsang's work is her 84-year-old mother, who plays a vital role both conceptually and practically in the artistic process. Their collaboration underscores the cultural muscle memory embedded in each of Tsang’s compositions via her ritualistic process and meticulous approach to medium, form, and materiality. The rhythmic actions of sewing, coiling, and weaving become physicalized ways of mapping and navigating the landscape of time.  

In Of Hours, Tsang weaves her daily observations into her work, transmuting each piece into a poetic archive articulated in the artist’s aesthetic vernacular of abstract formalism. Through her deliberate gestures, Tsang explores the idea of time as material – something that is both experienced in the moment and inscribed directly onto the material and composition of the work itself.  Each act of repetition becomes an index of the artist's presence, bringing touch into view whilst activating a continuous process of simultaneous recalling and embodied archiving.

Artworks

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