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There are walls we can see, and there are walls we carry with us.

In Suspended Existence, Yizhen Aaron Zhang navigates the silent geography of displacement. This exhibition juxtaposes two vastly different landscapes: the claustrophobic intimacy of a Queens apartment, where an immigrant's freedom is measured in twelve-hour intervals, and the dusty, open thresholds of the U.S.-Mexico border, where children carve out spaces of play in the shadow of a wall.

Though separated by two thousand miles, these subjects share a singular, haunting reality: the state of being "in-between." They exist in a pause—caught between heritage and aspiration, legality and survival. Yet, within this suspension, life refuses to stop. Meals are prepared. Games are invented. Moments of tenderness emerge in makeshift rooms and temporary shelters.

Zhang's photographs refuse easy answers. They offer neither sentimentality nor spectacle, but rather an unflinching intimacy that asks us to recognize our own relationship to borders—the ones nations build and the ones we internalize.

Through his lens, we do not see victims, but resilient inhabitants of a liminal world. We see the dignity of waiting, and the quiet, stubborn persistence of hope in spaces designed to contain it. We are invited to witness what happens when geography becomes destiny, and how the human spirit responds.