In Between Worlds: The Intangible Thread, two artists trace the subtle lines that tether inner and outer realms—of self and cosmos, memory and myth, visibility and obscurity. Their practices move through liminal spaces where personal experience and collective mystery converge. Working across disciplines, they create spaces in which the unseen is allowed to surface: emotional, spiritual, and poetic truths that resist being defined or contained. Threaded between their works is a shared desire to make the intangible perceptible—to touch the unspoken, to listen through shadow, to stitch together new maps of coexistence through emotion, sensation, and wonder.

Sophy Chang’s practice, rooted in her experience as a South Korean woman navigating life in America, transforms the unseen labor of coexistence into form. Her organic shapes, at once soft and spiky, echo both the vulnerability of tender-bodied life and the instinct for protection. Her art resists pressures to conform or be erased, creating sanctuaries for the fragile and overlooked. In this way, her work traces a thread between vulnerability and defense, self and other, opening possibilities for coexistence grounded in compassion and interconnection.

Xinran Guan’s paintings unfold like dreams suspended in twilight, blurring the edges between memory and imagination, past and possible. Guided by Taoist notions of harmony and the oneness of all things, she dissolves the boundary between foreground and background—shapes and forms fold into one another, coexisting and transforming, echoing the way we belong to the world. Within these worlds, whimsy, melancholy, and memory drift together in quiet light, opening portals to ineffable landscapes that vibrate with the tension between what is hidden and what longs to be revealed.

Together, their practices form a porous threshold—between worlds real and imagined, visible and veiled. This exhibition arrives in a time marked by division, conflict, misunderstanding, and discrimination, and offers an alternative vision of connection. Through their shared thread of tenderness, mystery, and transformation, these works invite us to inhabit the spaces in between—not to solve them, but to dwell in them fully—and in doing so, to sit with the presence of the unknown.