{"id":26105,"date":"2025-12-06T10:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T02:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=26105"},"modified":"2025-12-26T12:09:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T04:09:50","slug":"crossing-the-third-bridge-16-december-2025-24-january-2026","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/portfolio-item\/crossing-the-third-bridge-16-december-2025-24-january-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Crossing the Third Bridge | 16 December 2025 &#8211; 24 January 2026 &#8211; Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='artists-title'  class='avia-section av-2fhyme1-b5607fd938357ddd4696b6996f61c319 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  avia-bg-style-scroll  container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-26105'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<div class='flex_column av-262ljkp-042f4fc8f3d54432145d12a0dc80d8ae av_one_full  avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div '   ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-1sprvfd-52c9bbf4bc437c2da7970c0857d3878c\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-1sprvfd-52c9bbf4bc437c2da7970c0857d3878c{\nheight:20px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-1sprvfd-52c9bbf4bc437c2da7970c0857d3878c hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-2  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first  '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><h3 class=\"p1\" style=\"font-family: 'eb garamond'; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/portfolio-item\/crossing-the-third-bridge-16-december-2025-24-january-2026-works\/\">WORKS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/portfolio-item\/crossing-the-third-bridge-16-december-2025-24-january-2026\/\">PRESS RELEASE<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/portfolio-item\/crossing-the-third-bridge-16-december-2025-24-january-2026-insitu\/\">INSITU<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/portfolio-item\/crossing-the-third-bridge-16-december-2025-24-january-2026-artist-bio\/\">ARTIST BIO<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/CT3B-EXHIBITION-READING-COPY.pdf\">ARTWORK STATEMENT<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/CT3B-ebooklet.pdf\">E-booklet<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div class='flex_column av-1dkndy1-ad29b2e5eab9d52eb0b5ab219d28071a av_one_full  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-last  first flex_column_div column-top-margin'   ><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '  style='font-size:14px; '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'open sans thin'; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 25px; letter-spacing: 1px;\">Crossing the Third Bridge<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;<em>Crossing the Third Bridge<\/em>&#8216; traces the shifting identities of the Chinese diaspora through \u534e\u4fa8 (Hua Qiao), a term once applied to those who left Qing China and now carried by generations shaped more by memory, distance, and translation than by direct migration. Artists Kenneth Tam (USA), Lee Mok Yee (Malaysia), Ming Wong (Singapore), MM Yu (Philippines), Sean Lean (Malaysia), Tintin Wulia (Indonesia\/Australia) and Wong Chee Meng (Malaysia) navigate these complex intersections of heritage and experience, moving from the ancestral homeland to the country of birth, and arriving at a liminal space where identity is reshaped by migration and generational change.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For later generations, crossing this bridge involves balancing inherited customs with new cultural landscapes, navigating ancestral trauma, family expectations, and shifting societal norms, including patriarchal roles. It is an internal journey guided by memory, family bonds, and personal reflection, where questions of belonging persist: do I conform, or can I exist in between? Even without direct ties to China, individuals engage with the complexities of \u534e\u4fa8 (Hua Qiao), and identity remains fluid, shaped by history, memory, and contemporary life in ongoing dialogue while forging new forms of expression.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Across installation, photography, moving image, and performance, Malaysian and international artists of Chinese descent occupy a space where diaspora engages continually with memory, dissonance, and choice. Some navigate personal archives marked by absence or thread along interiors brimming with objects preserved for sentiment. Others trace the fragile choreography of emotion across generations, engage with Cantonese soap operas that unsettle heteronormative narratives, or revive nearly lost linguistic forms. At times, the artists turn toward their communities, highlighting emergent patterns, silences, and habits, while touches of absurdity emerge unexpectedly, creating space for reflection, allowing identities to unfold and shift in real time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As Malaysian writer Tash Aw reflects, \u201c<em>So many of us have multiple identities that it is tiring and pointless trying to reduce them into an easily digestible explanation. We have learned to own and celebrate the messiness of our histories.<\/em>\u201d At its core, this exhibition moves within that messiness, portraying the diasporic experience as a continual process of fraying and mending, slipping between what is lost and what remains.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Curator: Mikhail Vanan<\/p>\n<p>\u2018<em>Crossing the Third Bridge<\/em>&#8216; is featured at Wei-Ling Gallery and Wei-Ling Contemporary from 16 December 2025 &#8211; 24 January 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Wei-Ling Gallery is located at No 8, Jalan Scott, Brickfields, 50470 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Admission hours are Tuesday \u2013 Friday 10am \u2013 6pm, Saturday 10am \u2013 5pm.<\/p>\n<p>For further assistance, please contact +60322601106 or e-mail info@weiling-gallery.com<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-oz13ll-e63f00bc66c6901484b47f5830507b4e\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-oz13ll-e63f00bc66c6901484b47f5830507b4e{\nheight:40px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-oz13ll-e63f00bc66c6901484b47f5830507b4e hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-last  '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WORKS | PRESS RELEASE | INSITU | ARTIST BIO | ARTWORK STATEMENT | E-booklet Crossing the Third Bridge 'Crossing the Third Bridge' traces the shifting identities of the Chinese diaspora through \u534e\u4fa8 (Hua Qiao), a term once applied to those who left Qing China and now carried by generations shaped more by memory, distance, and [...]","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"portfolio_entries":[],"class_list":["post-26105","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/26105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26105"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/26105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26380,"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/26105\/revisions\/26380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26105"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_entries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_entries?post=26105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}