Revisiting the Journey of Arriving Not Yet With Me
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“Dear Arriving Not Yet, the process of creating you is like a journey of contemplating, constructing, and arriving at the feeling of home.”
Reflecting back on the exhibition Arriving Not Yet, program maker Jinxiao Zhou invites you to travel along with his thoughts. Inspired by the Chinese fable ‘The Peach Blossom Spring’, Arriving Not Yet centered around the need to connect with ourselves and others by sharing migrant experiences. A video tour specially composed for the Universe guides you through tunnels of glowing petals, a utopian garden and a dystopic office space. Two personally written letters mark the beginning and end of Jinxiao’s journey at MaMA.
Revisiting the Journey of Arriving Not Yet With Me
I created Arriving Not Yet with my dear artist-collaborators Gerardo Gomez Tonda, Gerardo Salas, Jing He, Qiaochu Guo, Utopia Syndicate, and Yin Yin Wong. Together we explored themes of belonging, exclusion, delusion, and hope—the feelings of drifting and arriving home. Through this video, you can embark on a contemplative virtual tour to visit and revisit the exhibition.
I also want to share two letters with you—one written on the opening day of the exhibition and the other on its finissage—which capture my journey. For me, the process of creating Arriving Not Yet felt like a journey of contemplating, constructing, and arriving at the feeling of home.
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Banner photo by Siddharth Pathak.
Video photography by Joris Koptod Nioky, Gerardo Salas, and Jinxiao Zhou. Video-editing by Gerardo Salas.
Jinxiao Zhou (1990) is a visual artist, grassroots educator, and social worker dedicated to supporting the LGBTQ+ and immigrant communities. His pedagogical practice seeks to connect art educators from the East with the West.
Jinxiao’s work focuses on creating spaces where individuals can connect with themselves and others. Through the duality of the Peach Blossom Spring story in the exhibition, his aim is to provide visitors with a platform for contemplating who/what/where they aspire to belong.
Arriving Not Yet centers around the fundamental human need to connect with ourselves and others through sharing the challenges of migrant experiences. By illustrating the exclusion of the East-Asian and Chinese community on the one hand, and challenging visitors to explore their unique route to connection on the other, the exhibition encourages a sense of belonging as a collaborative effort. Arriving Not Yet is a hopeful journey toward a universal destination: the feeling of finally arriving home.
