ENDGAME — Between Collapse and Continuation
Exhibition Details
Opening Reception:
December 19th, 2025 · 6–8 PM
Exhibition Dates:
December 16th–30th, 2025
Venue:
Loy Luo Space
101 Lafayette Street
New York, NY 10013
www.loyluospace.com
@loyluospace
Curated by:
Loy Luo
Participating Artists
Lila Pino
Explores emotional rupture and the struggle for spiritual self-determination through symbolic figuration and abstraction.
Matteo Galvano
Merges architecture and memory to construct imagined urban topographies and structural metaphors.
Becky Yee
Presents intimate photographic narratives on vulnerability, survivorship, and the emotional truth beneath public narratives.
Jack Zhang
Creates chromatic, rhythmic abstractions that map the tensions between chaos, rupture, and regeneration.
GraceANN Cummings
Uses fracture, broken mirrors, and existential symbolism to examine mortality, innocence, and human agency.
Loy Luo
Investigates the internal theater of consciousness—its thresholds, silences, and decisive turning points—through restrained atmospheric surfaces.
Theophane Ingold
Transforms hand-planed wood shavings into luminous material fields, merging slow craft with structural perception.
Robert Solomon
Explores meditative cycles of growth and decay through abstracted nature and layered surfaces.
Sun-Chang Lo
Through his photography of aged walls and architectural fragments, Sun-chang Lo captures a profound sense of endgame: time compressed into surfaces, structures suspended between persistence and collapse.
His work explores observation and witnessing. His film documents the transformation of a Buddhist mandala within Backed & Void, aligning with the exhibition’s inquiry into impermanence and endgame states.
About
"Endgame" is not the conclusion of a narrative, but a threshold teeming with the hope of transition and renewal. As existing structures reach exhaustion, every remaining move gains decisive weight through a state of heightened awareness.
The Optimism of the Will
Departing from the traditional definition of "ending" as failure, this exhibition frames the endgame as a threshold—a point where fragility and transformative power coexist. In the tradition of Chinese chess, the fascination with the "endgame" is more than a test of skill; it is an optimistic discipline of the will. It speaks to a tenacity that refuses to surrender until the very last breath, and the creativity to reimagine "continuation" within constrained conditions.
A Posture of Equanimity and Grace
In the Chinese context, "Tongtou" (通透) signifies more than mere transparency; it is a state of profound lucidity and open-mindedness attained through life’s trials. Confronting the endgame, the artists in this exhibition manifest a sense of Equanimity (圆融)—a practice akin to the Buddhist Mandala, finding enlightenment within the transience of life and death.
This is a posture of grace—the ability to maintain a smile and an aesthetic composure amidst moments of turbulence or awkwardness. Rather than documenting the collapse of systems, these works explore how to safeguard the inextinguishable beauty of life through an awakened spirituality, even as certainty dissolves.
