Dispersed throughout the gallery are a constellation of markings made by performance-based artist WeiZen Ho. material : brick ~ material : body (2026) is a site-specific installation and iterative performance artwork using heritage building materials salvaged from 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art’s recent demolition and renovation work. In repurposing structural components from this heritage-listed Corporation Building which 4A has occupied for 26 years, the artist brings the past in dialogue with the present utilising material interventions responding to the newly released energy flow throughout the gallery spaces.

Guided through intuition, material : brick ~ material : body is underscored by innate intrasensory feeling. Ho reconfigures these historical objects in an act of liberating rebirth and initiating them as collaborators in her improvisational performances throughout the duration of the exhibition. In this series of nonverbal communications, Ho embellishes these reclaimed bricks into spiritual offerings by introducing further materials drawn from ritual ceremonies, such as joss paper. 

Upon conclusion of her evolving performance occurrences, Ho will burn and singe the resulting benefactory objects in a solemnly empowering rite of renewal.