Superficial

In collaboration with: Grace Cao,   Julie  Du,  Lucie Tran
Under guidance of: E Roon Kang
Exhibition Design
May 2025

For the CCA senior exhibition, we worked with the theme Superficial by covering a wall with a grid of risoprinted newsprint. Each stack carried fragments of the word itself, short descriptions of the projects, and close-ups of the exhibitors’ eyes. The show looked back at its viewers as much as they looked at it.

The pages were nailed to the wall, echoing the way decoration often gets thoughtlessly tacked on. Printed on flimsy newsprint, they moved in the wind and were free for visitors to take. As the layers were revealed, the piece represented out cycles of consumption, waste, and repetition. By privileging appearance over meaning, the exhibition became its own critique of superficiality.