A PARTIAL REFUSAL

Curated by: Weihui Lu

Opening: Feb 12, 6-8pm

Dates: Feb 12 - Mar 20, 2026

Featuring:

Clare Hu, Jenny Jiseun Kim,
Maia Taber Ayerza, Mikayla Patton,
Rowan Renee, SaraNoa Mark

Field Projects is proud to present A Partial Refusal, a group exhibition bringing together a wide span of works engaging with the theme of language, loosely inspired by Edouard Glissant’s writings about the right to opacity. 

In the era of didactic wall texts and large language models, when words are both overspent and undervalued, these artists grapple with language — as container, as gap, as site of censorship and struggle. They resist simplistic reads and rigid identifiers, and the extractive desire of singular meaning. They hover instead in the void of the redacted, the weight of the unsaid, the impossible space of translation.

Through sculpture, textile, book art, drawings and paintings, these artists employ different strategies of refusal as a form of self-protection, challenging viewers to a slow and earned — and at times partial — intimacy of understanding.