City Vacation
Dec 16 - 28, 2025
68 Jay Street, Brooklyn
Em Flaire, Marshall Wang, Seungjin Lee, Yunaian(Q) Lin, Gigi An, Annie Chen Ziyao
What if your next vacation is just one thought away?
Let’s take a City Vacation
It isn’t a journey far from home, but a subtle slip of consciousness that happens in the city’s most mundane, noisy, and unromantic corners.
This exhibition traces that moment:
the fleeting yet unmistakable shift when reality loosens
and the mind quietly takes a vacation of its own.
Through the visual languages of six artists, the exhibition unfolds as a psychological journey: moving from the external world to the internal one, from the literal reality to the dreamlike city, from surface perception to emotional depth.
The journey begins where imagination leaks into routine.
Everyday scenes are stretched, bent, and interrupted by floating geometry, looping thoughts, and unexpected visual detours. Life feels familiar but slightly tilted.
It’s that moment when you step outside and everything looks the same, but somehow different.
A small shift in perception marks the first sign of vacation.
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A woman in a swimsuit stands inside a convenience store, then a crowded street market. These are not destinations, but the city’s most ordinary, overworked spaces.
The swimsuit feels out of place, almost absurd. Meant for rest and escape, it becomes a quiet gesture of resistance inside a system built for consumption and efficiency. Surrounded by shelves, goods, and movement, the body is both visible and contained.
Here, vacation isn’t about leaving. It’s something you stage for yourself—briefly, awkwardly—right in the middle of daily life. A small pause carved out from the noise, where staying becomes its own form of escape.
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A woven world emerges, part garden, part circuit board.
Digital flora and glowing forms coexist in a landscape that feels alive yet engineered.
This stop mirrors the calm that comes from zoning out—scrolling, drifting, letting the mind wander without intention. A soft, algorithmic holiday unfolds, where nature and technology blur into a shared rhythm.
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Here, the city loosens its grip.
Natural forms, especially water, take center stage, captured through photography that documents not control, but transformation. Images are deconstructed and rebuilt, shaped by time, chance, and elemental force.
This stop feels like standing still long enough to notice things changing without you.
A pause within the journey, where vacation becomes less about movement and more about surrender.
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The city breaks into fragments.
Scenes dissolve into pixels—almost real, almost remembered.
It’s the familiar experience of staring at a screen too long, when the world turns grainy and soft around the edges. A micro-escape. A brief mental buffer. The mind takes a shortcut out.
The journey ends where it began: inside motion.
Human figures tangle with vibrant lines and restless city backdrops. Streets loop. Directions blur. Everything moves at once. The chaos is not overwhelming—it’s recognizable.
Sometimes vacation doesn’t mean leaving the city at all.
It begins the moment you realize you’ve been standing at the same intersection—just seeing it differently now.
Let’s take a City Vacation
It isn’t a journey far from home, but a subtle slip of consciousness that happens in the city’s most mundane, noisy, and unromantic corners.
This exhibition traces that moment:
the fleeting yet unmistakable shift when reality loosens
and the mind quietly takes a vacation of its own.
Through the visual languages of six artists, the exhibition unfolds as a psychological journey: moving from the external world to the internal one, from the literal reality to the dreamlike city, from surface perception to emotional depth.
Stop 1 — The Untamed Everyday
The journey begins where imagination leaks into routine.
Everyday scenes are stretched, bent, and interrupted by floating geometry, looping thoughts, and unexpected visual detours. Life feels familiar but slightly tilted.
It’s that moment when you step outside and everything looks the same, but somehow different.
A small shift in perception marks the first sign of vacation.
Gigi An
Drinking Problem, 2025
Self Portrait, 2025
Drinking Problem, 2025
Self Portrait, 2025
Stop 2 — The Grocery Store Getaway
A woman in a swimsuit stands inside a convenience store, then a crowded street market. These are not destinations, but the city’s most ordinary, overworked spaces.
The swimsuit feels out of place, almost absurd. Meant for rest and escape, it becomes a quiet gesture of resistance inside a system built for consumption and efficiency. Surrounded by shelves, goods, and movement, the body is both visible and contained.
Here, vacation isn’t about leaving. It’s something you stage for yourself—briefly, awkwardly—right in the middle of daily life. A small pause carved out from the noise, where staying becomes its own form of escape.
Annie Chen Ziyao
City-Vacation Stop 3: Local-Market, 2019
City Vacation Stop 2: Grocery Store, 2019
City-Vacation Stop 3: Local-Market, 2019
City Vacation Stop 2: Grocery Store, 2019
Stop 3 — The Electronic Garden
A woven world emerges, part garden, part circuit board.
Digital flora and glowing forms coexist in a landscape that feels alive yet engineered.
This stop mirrors the calm that comes from zoning out—scrolling, drifting, letting the mind wander without intention. A soft, algorithmic holiday unfolds, where nature and technology blur into a shared rhythm.
Marshall Wang
Taxonomy of Prayer, 2024
Stop 4 — Entropy Pause
Here, the city loosens its grip.
Natural forms, especially water, take center stage, captured through photography that documents not control, but transformation. Images are deconstructed and rebuilt, shaped by time, chance, and elemental force.
This stop feels like standing still long enough to notice things changing without you.
A pause within the journey, where vacation becomes less about movement and more about surrender.
Stop 5 — Pixelated Daydreams
The city breaks into fragments.
Scenes dissolve into pixels—almost real, almost remembered.
It’s the familiar experience of staring at a screen too long, when the world turns grainy and soft around the edges. A micro-escape. A brief mental buffer. The mind takes a shortcut out.
Stop 6 — The Color-Tangled Crossroads
The journey ends where it began: inside motion.
Human figures tangle with vibrant lines and restless city backdrops. Streets loop. Directions blur. Everything moves at once. The chaos is not overwhelming—it’s recognizable.
Sometimes vacation doesn’t mean leaving the city at all.
It begins the moment you realize you’ve been standing at the same intersection—just seeing it differently now.