The Fish Tank
Grace Ji Yan Rodriguez-Tsang

Opening Reception: Saturday, November 7th at 6 - 9pm​

On View November 7th - 29th, 2026​

"Anxiety is an act of contradiction. It demands my full attention, insisting anything less will result in absolute calamity. But in the same moment, it makes me feel small and powerless, as though even my greatest effort cannot suffice to rescue me. I fixate on every tiny detail while losing sight of the fact that I'm one dot in a grand and boundless image, part of something I can't possibly control. My heart and my brain keep talking to each other, often disagreeing, and time often evaporates before calm returns.

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A fish tank is a space where contradictions can live together. It isn't a place where opposites are solved or eliminated. It's a place where they're accepted and allowed to form something more alive than any single fish. The chaos of competing species and competing interests becomes harmonized, and the result is something delightful. The beauty and elegance of nature presents itself among a million little fish, busying themselves about their daily fishy little duties.

The Fish Tank explores duality through fish and flowers. Fish are small, elegant, and a little silly. The lotus flower is beautiful, yet it grows out of mud. Flowers are most striking in their decay. In each, beauty and difficulty are inseparable, and in each, the other is fulfilled.

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These works are my way of reconciling the in-between feelings: experiencing tension without needing to resolve it, and finding that the contradictions are part of life’s composition."​

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