"callooh! callay!" is a cry of exclamation from the enigmatic poem, Jabberwocky. Like the rest of this nonsensical poem, the phrase refuses to be translated without putting up a fight. Initiated with this cryptic sound, Jiayun Chen opens her solo exhibition, a tension-filled yet whimsical series of new works. Here, she enters a poetic realm where the chasm between translations becomes poignantly palpable yet unbearably light. Using translucent plexiglas, everyday objects and the immaterial such as shadow and air, she materializes the invisible membrane felt when traversing through languages. By doing so, she pauses in the space between synonyms, lingering in the eternal battles between precision and deviation, as a continuation of her long fascination with translation and mistranslation. With the distorted, the blurred, the reflected, and the imagined, she leads the viewer into a space of asymmetry where translation becomes deeply (self-)reflective, mirroring the translator more than the translated. The exhibition also vessels an experiment in collective translation. Prior to the exhibition, Chen invited her friends to participate by creating their translations of the poem Jabberwocky in their mother tongues. In this experiment, each translation becomes a portal to a different world of the translator. Besides being part of the exhibition, the translated Jabberwocky versions will also be compiled into a zine to accompany the show. Exhibition curated by Cuixi Lin