A Room for Unbecoming Women

Curated by Emma (Xinyan) Gu

Launch Event: Thursday 30th July, 6pm - 9pm

(performance by Oriana Catton starting at 7pm)

Exhibition Open: 30th July - 3rd August

Location: Gallery 2

A Room for Unbecoming Women is a group exhibition that creates an imagined intimate space for exploring diverse experiences of femininity, identity, and selfhood. Bringing together works by women and non-binary artists, the exhibition invites reflection on forms of becoming that exist beyond conventional expectations of femininity.

Through painting, objects, sculpture, installation, and interdisciplinary practices, the gallery is reimagined as a personal and shared space that is shaped by memory, everyday experiences, material encounters, and individual narratives. Visitors are invited into this room as guests: to listen, to feel, and to engage with the works through emotional, sensory, and embodied experiences.

Presented at Gallery 1, ASC Handbag Factory, A Room for Unbecoming Women is an independent curatorial project by Nest-A Lab, founded and curated by Emma Xinyan Gu.

Participating Artists:
Dan Zhang, Iris Lingyu Zhang, Jie Shuai, Joyce Jiayu Wei, Manxin Li, Megan Preston-Davies, Oriana Catton, Sharri Alosaimi, Yuyang Chen, Zhan Shu.

All participating artists identify as women or non-binary.