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Using soft sculptures, fiber art in conjunction with poetry, we are Wenjue Lu and Chufeng Fang, an artist duo seeking to provoke through the disguised plainness of natural-colored fibers. Born in Beijing and Jieyang, China respectfully, Wenjue obtained her B.F.A. in fashion design at Parsons School of Design while Chufeng obtained his B.A. in media and culture at NYU. They began working together to produce studio art in 2021 under the name Studio Wenjüe Lu exploring the relationship between stillness, fragility, anxiety, and slowness in an ever-accelerating world. The works produced through our bodies are a result of letting go. We’re repelled by a vision: A giant, constantly spinning wheel that we called world, fueled by lives strolling through a linear production of history, obsessed with acceleration and accumulation. Kaleidoscopic madnesses. As two human beings, like everyone else, we are inevitably governed by this unbearable thing called ego, so unbearable it dissolves all the desire for us to work as one entity, but to work as none: the bodies as the vehicle and minds as the filter, we lend ourselves to poetry and dreamscapes, we work to carve out a space of Tao, where “Heaven’s Will and Human Affairs Are One”(天人合一). This alternative world, in which human is no longer at the center, also possess the mundane, the fragmentary, and a newfound slowness. This world can, at the same time but not all at once, be hopeful, dreadful, dreamy, haunting, mesmerizing, bleak, deceitful, or sobering.