TENG WANG STUDIO
Title: 'It’s OK to Fall'
Exhibition and performance: Middelheim museum,Belgium,2025
Artist Residence:Middelheim park, Belgium, 2025
Medium: installation/ sculpture [ performance/video(optional)]
Dimensions: 1.2 m* 2.5m [The height/ dimensions can be determined based on exhibition site]
Year: 2025
'It’s OK to Fall' is a performative sculpture that explores the tension between progress and collapse, resistance and fragility, stability and instability. It reflects the paradox of advancement and vulnerability. Progress means rising, but it also means falling. In an era of uncertainty, how can we embrace the inevitability of falling and discover new possibilities within it?
The sculpture takes the form of a Jenga-like tower made of tightly arranged silver balloon letters. Balloons signify ascent, but the artist reinterprets them as falling objects. These balloons are tightly arranged together to resist gravity while mirroring their surroundings. As the performance unfolds and disassemble, the structure is gradually dismantled, and the letters fall—ultimately revealing the phrase: 'It’s OK to Fall'.
Falling is not an end. By embracing the act of falling, the work invites us to see instability not as failure, but as a poetic dialogue with instability environment. In the face of crisis and uncertainty, 'It’s OK to Fall' invites us to changing the observing angle to see collapse as an essential strategy for dialogue, collective transformation, and long- term survival—an poetic celebration of the creative potential inherent in our collective vulnerability.
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