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Jason Kwong & Yingying Zheng

Overload Jason Kwong & Yingying Zheng

Overload is a duo exhibition featuring Hong Kong-born artist Jason Kwong and Spanish Chinese artist Yingying Zheng, both of whom share personal histories of migration and cultural displacement. Drawing on minimalist and abstract visual languages, the exhibition explores the emotional tensions, ruptures, and realignments that arise from movement across borders—both physical and psychological.

Inspired by the metaphor of a binary star system—two celestial bodies in constant gravitational relation—Overload considers how individuals navigate the competing forces of memory, identity, and belonging. In this context, home is not fixed but shifting: a fragile centre of gravity shaped by longing, absence, and reconstruction. Jason Kwong investigates the concept of “horizontality” in a postcolonial context, using materials such as Xuan paper, ink, and plaster to create meditative surfaces that reflect a quiet search for balance. Zheng Yingying, working with geometric abstraction and layered perspectives, explores how identity is shaped and distorted by both inner experience and external perception. Together, their works trace an emotional topography of migration that is both intimate and resonant. Rather than providing answers, Overload invites viewers to reflect on questions of movement and meaning: What stabilises us in moments of overload? In the orbit between here and elsewhere—what do we call home?

Organised by Yuxin Zhang, Coven

21 June 2024 →11 July 2025

Exhibition Opening:

Saturday 21st June 15:00 - 18:00

Opening Times

Friday Saturday Sunday

11:00 - 18:00

and by appointment

Where to find us

This event is at 571 Oxford Road, Reading. Public transport is available from Reading town center and Reading station if you are visiting from elsewhere.