SPACE 776 presents Text & Image: At the Edge of Language and Vision, on view from December 19 to 31, 2025.

This exhibition brings together historically significant works by Andy Warhol, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, and Jungmyung Kim, alongside contemporary practices selected through SPACE 776’s open call. Among the artists chosen are Junpeng Liang & Weixi Kuang, whose collaborative work enters the exhibition as a response to a lineage in which language and image have never been stable or separate systems, but have continuously rewritten one another.

The exhibition is grounded in a long-standing artistic question: how meaning is produced when language becomes visual, and images begin to function as a form of writing. From Warhol’s WILD RASPBERRIES cookbook, where text slips into parody, repetition, and graphic gesture, to Bouabré’s Alphabet Bété, in which drawing becomes a tool for preserving and inventing language, and Jungmyung Kim’s image-editing book editions that challenge the authority of printed knowledge, the exhibition traces how artists have used text not simply to explain images, but to unsettle how images are read.

Within this context, Junpeng Liang & Weixi Kuang were selected through the open call for their engagement with systems of inscription that operate beyond conventional writing. Their work approaches language through biological processes, material transformation, and speculative structures, proposing alternative forms of notation shaped by growth, time, and non-human agency. Rather than treating text linearly, their practice aligns with the exhibition’s broader inquiry into how meaning emerges through accumulation, mutation, and spatial organization.

Text & Image: At the Edge of Language and Vision is conceived as an exhibition for open-call selected artists to enter into dialogue with canonical figures, not through imitation or contrast, but through shared questions. What happens when language loses its stability? How do images carry knowledge without narrative clarity? And how have artists across different generations used visual form to construct, fragment, or reimagine systems of communication?

Presented at SPACE 776, this exhibition frames the open call not as a peripheral gesture, but as a curatorial structure that places contemporary practices directly within an ongoing historical conversation about language, vision, and meaning.

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Open Call sected artist : Junpeng Liang & Weixi Kuang

Artist statement
Junpeng Liang & Weixi Kuang work across bio-computation, material fabrication, techno-ethics, and material narratives. In their work, they investigate how biological growth processes can be integrated into architectural and environmental systems, while using speculative design to reflect on the cultural and ethical implications of emerging technologies. Through interdisciplinary methods and experimental perspectives, they collaboratively construct multiple imaginaries of future dwelling and ways of living.

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Artist Biography
Weixi Kuang and Junpeng Liang both graduated from the China Academy of Art with a BA in Art and Technology and are currently pursuing postgraduate studies at Central Saint Martins and the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, respectively. Their practice spans across bio-computation, material science, robotic fabrication, techno-ethics, and material narratives. In their work, they investigate how biological growth processes can be integrated into architectural and environmental systems, while using speculative design to reflect on the cultural and ethical implications of emerging technologies. Through interdisciplinary methods and experimental perspectives, they collaboratively construct multiple imaginaries of future dwelling and ways of living.