Discursive
a Duo Exhibition by Yuchen Hou & Morgan Strong
Basement Gallery, Davis
Last Update: April 25 2026
Discursive is an ongoing dialogue, exploring the entanglement between artist, context, and material.
Duo show by Morgan Strong and Yuchen Hou, Discursive asks how material can transform memory and experience. This exhibition is not the beginning or end of the investigation, but rather a manifestation of a collaborative moment in time.
Hou begins with functional materials encountered in everyday life. Through touch, repetition, and small gestures, their intended use is shifted, becoming something to be felt and seen. Through performative actions, he works with both deliberate and unconscious gestures, opening a space that invites reflection on how individual experience and meaning are formed in relation to others within larger systems.
Strong searches to express the ethereal quality of a memory to process grief and cherish company. With the approach of a researcher, she wrangles elusive media, like fugitive dyes, lithographic printmaking, and glazed ceramics, to evoke the delicate complexity of tenderness.
poster of discursive
Design: Morgan Strong & Yuchen Hou
poster of Burying Secrets 2025
performative project
part of the duo exhibition discursive