Installation view of 《Faisandage》 © G Gallery
G Gallery is
presenting the group exhibition 《Faisandage》 through July 31.
The term “faisandage”
refers to a historical French game-preparation technique in which hunted
animals were not cooked immediately, but instead hung in a dark, damp place,
allowing their flesh to slowly decompose and transform. Rather than simply
preserving the dead, the process embraces the passage of "death
time," during which the body is fundamentally altered into something
entirely new.
Within this
suspended interval, conventional notions of freshness are overturned and
redefined. It is through this slow transformation brought about by death that a
distinctive—and once highly prized—flavor is believed to emerge.
The
relationship between sensation and thought, process and completion, is no
different. Receiving and releasing—input and output—are inseparable processes
that continuously repeat, accumulate, and flow into one another. The artist is
one who lingers within this current, dwelling longer and more deeply in
particular sensations.
Featuring Woo
Hannah, Choi Sujin, and Shui Cao, the exhibition explores unstable
relationships between seemingly opposing conditions—eating and being eaten,
sleeping and waking, death and absorption—through the process of
"digestion."
Installation view of 《Faisandage》 © G Gallery
Woo Hannah exposes the structures of predation and plunder
embedded within the language of cooking and gastronomy, unsettling the boundary
between predator and prey. Choi Sujin treats the repeated acts of painting,
cooking, and sleeping as a metaphor for digestion, translating into painting a
landscape where residues of sensation and memory—never fully processed—continue
to drift.
Through hybrid life forms that traverse sea and land, Shui Cao
expands digestion beyond the interior of the body, imagining it instead as a
process that encompasses the environment as a whole.
The exhibition also extends Woo Hannah's presentation at Art
Basel Hong Kong 2026. Reconstructing the display structure originally developed
for the fair within the gallery, it transforms the sensory experience first
shaped in the context of an international art fair into a more immersive and
spatially layered encounter.
Participating
Artists: Woo Hannah, Choi Sujin, Shuyi Cao
