19/08/2026
In residency with Strange Field, Choin and Pien are conducting a collaborative practice-based research project. The project takes Helen Molesworthโs book Part Object Part Sculpture as its point of departure. As the title suggests, the book traces the trajectory through which the object came to transform the concept of sculpture. However, they seek to reverse this trajectory. Their project, Part Sculpture Part Object, focuses not only on the process by which an object becomes sculpture, but also on the reverse process, how sculpture returns to the state of an object.
Throughout the residency, the two artists respond to and intervene in what the other has left behind or done. Rather than attempting to unify their distinct thematic interests, they experiment with passing on and unsettling the sculptural logic embedded in each otherโs work. In this context, unmaking the otherโs work is not an act of negation. Instead, it becomes another form of making, one that reopens the work and shifts it toward new possibilities. A seemingly finished sculpture is loosened again, its function and meaning becoming unstable and ambiguous, moving toward a state akin to a found object.
