NADA New York 2025

位 航 Andy H. Wei accidentally spent years living in Qingdao, when a visit to celebrate Chinese New Year in January 2020 turned into the mandatory quarantine in the international port city. An impromptu studio set up in his father’s tearoom solarium reflects feelings of being both existentially apart from home, yet closer to origins such as the regional specificity of the north-eastern dialect on the Yellow Sea coast. In Wei’s haptic vernacular, muted moments roll on waves of anxiety that well up to allow for playful privacy.