• Dreamflying

LiLi Nacht and Yidan Zeng

Dreamflying

Price: $9,000.00
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Dreamflying is by LiLi Nacht and Yidan Zeng, from the collaborative Kai Pa Ti 开趴体 show and residency by the MengCheng 梦城团 Collective. 

Kai Pa Ti 开趴体 was on view from July 23-29, 2023, serving as a culminating exhibition of Meng 梦城团 Cheng Collective’s residency at Crosstown Arts. The title of the show means to “throw a party” in Chinese, which is how our families would refer to potluck gatherings from our childhood.  The exhibition took place in our studio spaces, which we transformed into a family home with a living room, dining room, and kitchen. The works included documentation and artifacts from our summer potluck series, like the dining table and ceramics set, ancestral altar, and photographs from the dinners. Also on view were individual works, including drawings, paintings, prints, sculptures, and textile pieces made by the artists in the collective. Our goal was to invite the Memphis community into the space we had created, and share our collective work, conversations, connections, rituals, and healing we created and experienced over the summer.

About the Artist

The MengCheng 梦城团 Collective includes Thandi Cai, LiLi Nacht, the late Neena Wang, and Yidan Zeng.

Thandi Cai | www.thandicai.com | @cai_in_the_sky

Thandi Cai (they/them) is a queer, Indonesian Chinese American artist from the American South whose interdisciplinary work—spanning film, textiles, performance, design, and print media—explores the futures of Asian diasporic identity. Rooted in social engagement, their practice challenges colonial systems of gender, borders, and capital through imagination, pleasure, and speculative storytelling. Cai is currently immersed in Bluff City Chinese, a documentary and archive project amplifying Chinese American histories in Memphis in partnership with the Chinese Historical Society of Memphis & the Midsouth.

LiLi Nacht | www.lilinacht.com | @lili.nacht

LiLi 丽丽 Nacht is a Chinese American artist, educator and curator. Her work is rooted in meditation, ritual, Daoist/Buddhist practice, and 山水 (shan shui or mountain water) ink painting traditions. Nacht creates environments, abstract forms and fluid compositions that transcend the literal, inviting viewers into a space of reflection and connection with their inner world. Her work also engages with social practice, creating opportunities for people to gather and explore the tensions between chosen vs. inherited identities, reimagine historical narratives, and foster collective unlearning. 

Neena Wang | www.neenawang.com | @neenaneen

Neena Wang 王媛 (1995-2025) was a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spanned sculpture, ceramics, glass, painting, curation, installation, and performance to imagine alternative futures and create them into the present. Her work drew from ancestral storytelling and dream imagery, and the collective unconscious to challenge dominant narratives and construct emergent mythologies. 

Yidan Zeng | www.yidanzeng.com | @yidan_zeng

Yidan Zeng 曽一丹 (they/them) is a queer, Chinese American artist raised by Guangzhou, China and Memphis, TN stitching together text/iles, performance, and ancestral rituals toward an embodied practice of attention and care. They use the relational as both material and site of research, exploring the body as a portal to what we might not yet know. A graduate of the Brown-RISD Dual Degree Program in Computer Science and Glass, they approach their work through both the lens of rules and instructions (how do we reprogram ourselves?) alongside playful attunement (how can we be more present?). 

Details

Quilted cyanotype on fabrics from MengCheng Collective's families and communities, baltic birch, milk paint

4' x 8'

MengCheng 梦城团 Collective

2023