WE EXIST ONLY THROUGH ENCOUNTS
Performance
Material: Corn Starch,Honey, Kaolin
We exist only through encounters is a text based site-specific artwork composed of cornstarch, honey, and kaolin, inscribed onto the surfaces of the trees. As the text slowly dissolves and transforms, it mirrors the fragile, shifting nature of our relationships between the worlds. Rooted in Donna Haraway’s concept of natureculture, the piece dissolves the binary between human and nonhuman, recognizing all beings as active participants in a shared process of world-making. Here, encounter becomes both theme and method — a way of being-with that acknowledges how we are continuously shaped by our entanglements with others, however fleeting or unstable. The work is not fixed, but in flux — a quiet collaboration between language, environment, and time.
Rong Huang is a Chinese artist currently living and working in London. She holds an MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London, and earned her BFA in Printmaking from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. Her practice explores the presence of natural elements within urban environments, combining imagery, sound, and found objects to imagine alternative realities. Through her work, she reflects on the delicate balance between human activity and the natural world, situating our existence within the liminal space between the microscopic and the vast.