Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography is pleased to present, thinking alongside itself, a collection of essays by 2023-2024 Writer-in-Residence, Weiyi Chang, published on the occasion of Cold Data, an exhibition by 2023-2024 Artists-in-Residence, Soft Turns.
Over two years, Chang and Soft Turns’ residencies were paired to encourage durational research and close study between them. Together, they engaged in a practice of thinking-in-parallel, resulting in essays by Chang that constellate Soft Turns’ practice and artworks within their common fields of interest: ecology, contemporary environmental concerns, human/non-human ethics and their socioeconomic, political and cultural ramifications.
In the enclosed collection, Chang’s writing aims to expand the terms of what it means to write and think alongside artists. She takes Soft Turns' practice as a proposition to traverse topics as varied as outer space colonialism, the intelligence of non-human entities, the cultural politics of language and more, parsing the manifold nuances and layers embedded in the artists’ work.
