Not Just

Curator: Emma Yifan Wang

Artists: Cas Campbell, Emily Stevens, Mariana Mauricio, Lana Locke, Molly Grad.  

Imagining the space as the female organ, including the womb, vagina, and external structures, "Not Just" is an exhibition showing diverse life experiences of five women artists—who are more than just artists. As the curator, I am learning to curate and, at the same time, curating to learn. The multifaceted dimensions of motherhood and femininity that I found in their work deepened my understanding of the character a woman could be.

It is pink,

it is punk,

it is wild,

it is a wonderland.

If my previous project, "Feral Mothers," offered an organic view of motherhood through a daughter’s lens, then "Not Just" is a continuing journey that presents the same artists from different perspectives, focusing on the transformative force within each individual. As Virginia Woolf’s words, “I am rooted, but I flow.” We will always be flowing, into different shapes — and that is who we are.