– Where Silence Gestures – 

SOOFA SUHE is pleased to present the duo exhibition Where Silence Gestures, featuring recent artworks by artists Elflock Guo and Hancheng Cui. The exhibition seeks to explore the intersections of “gesture” and “silence,” asking how the individual negotiates presence within the tension between image and body. Here, silence is not stasis, but a form of ongoing presence—where new possibilities quietly emerge in the unsaid.

In Elflock Guo’s paintings, the image is understood not as invention, but as “discovery.” His practice often begins with fleeting fragments of the everyday—a pause in a journey, the shape of a stone, or the subtle oscillation of an unnamed emotion— translating these sensations into recurring figures. Through continual capture and reconfiguration, he constructs a constellation of images that evolve into a generative visual language. Quiet yet charged, his works seem to converse in silence, weaving narratives of time, perception, and affect.

Hancheng Cui ’s sculptures, by contrast, do not seek to reconstruct the body in its entirety, but instead preserve fragmented gestures that probe the fissure between “action” and “intention.” In his hands, the body becomes a kind of “relic”: caught in the residue of movement, yet stripped of its original impetus, leaving only traces suspended in form. His works resemble a corpus of gestures, shadows, and motions—fixed yet open-ended. As Foucault reminds us in The Order of Things, the fragment of an image is also a trace of knowledge.

Rather than building a grand narrative, the exhibition creates a space woven from subtle, unarticulated moments. In this field, silence is not absence but amplified presence. The stillness of gesture and the drift of image speak wordlessly, inviting viewers to rediscover the flow of gesture and emotion, and to listen to the dialogue of silence.