Third Space Is a Verb International Juried Exhibition

Li Tang presents the international juried exhibition Third Space Is a Verb, exploring identity not as a fixed condition, but as an ongoing process of making, negotiating, and transformation. Moving beyond conventional understandings of diaspora as a space of in-betweenness, the exhibition considers how identity is continuously shaped through memory, language, movement, and material practice.

Across different approaches and lived experiences, hybridity becomes a method rather than a label, and belonging something created rather than inherited. The selected works engage with migration, cultural translation, memory, and shifting forms of identity through experimentation, resistance, adaptation, and transformation.

Matilda Berke, Oorja Garg, and Abhishek Tuiwala were invited as jurors for this open call. Their selections reflect the exhibition’s interest in identity as an active form of cultural production. Third Space Is a Verb brings together works in which identity is not simply represented as a condition, but continuously negotiated, performed, and enacted.

Date
August 17 – October 30, 2026

Guest Jury
Matilda Berke, Oorja Garg, Abhishek Tuiwala

Selected Artists
Unimuke Agada, Andi Bierlein, Raisa Raquel Durandi, Hsiao-Chu Hsia, Yujin Hur, Ningyi Jiang, Leekyung Kang, Eunha Kim, Hoho Kuo, Colby Lamson-Gordon, Lu LEI, Chen Liu, Arete Xu, Zixuan Zhao

Producer
Webson Ji

About Jury

Matilda Lin Berke

Matilda Lin Berke is a New Yorker from Pasadena, California. She has written theory and criticism for publications including Purple Fashion Magazine, Mutt Art Review, the Brooklyn Rail, Impulse Magazine, Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, Filmmaker Magazine, Spike Art Magazine, and The Whitney Review. She teaches at the Center for Fiction in Brooklyn and has also published fiction and poetry. Her second short film, “The Third Dimension is Time,” screened at Olney Gleason.

Website: https://matildalinberke.neocities.org/

Oorja Garg

Oorja Garg is a curator currently based between New York and New Delhi. Her practice moves between research, exhibition-making, and critical writing, foregrounding speculation, archives, and play as curatorial methods. She examines how contemporary art engages science, fiction, games, and popular culture to question dominant narratives of technology, identity, and history. Garg holds dual master’s degrees in Curatorial Practice from the School of Visual Arts and in Art History from the MS University of Baroda.

Instagram: @oorjag

Abhishek Tuiwala

Abhishek Tuiwala is a conceptual sculptor whose practice examines identity, labor, and social structures through materials that carry cultural and personal associations. His work spans sculpture and large scale installations, and he is currently developing installations using elastic strips that explore adaptability and behavioral flexibility. He is the recipient of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship, the Rema Hort Mann Artist Community Engagement Grant, the Stutzman Foundation Award for Sculpture, and awards from the Bombay Art Society and the Hyderabad Art Society.

Website: https://www.abhishektuiwala.com/

Andi Bierlein, Veins, 2022, Polaroid, 2 x 2 in

Ningyi Jiang, To Be Born In NYC You Should be Very Happy, 2025, Performance video installation, Variable

Eunha Kim, Aliens, 2024, Oil on canvas, 100 x 80 in

Arete Xu, Greed, 2026, Video performance

Hsiao-Chu Hsia, Bright Sugar Hide Calm Nights, 2026, Video, 90 Seconds

Unimuke Agada, Untitled, 2026, Oil on canvas, 15 x 12 in

Leekyung Kang, Welcome to Ouroboros World 2024, Video, 1m 55s

Lu LEI, Untitled, 2025, Hand embroidered text on organza, 135 x 100 cm