Qiuyu Wu
Floating Body, 2025
Ceramic, wood, glass
49.5” x 27” x 16.5”
Floating Body examines the precarious condition of non-citizens. Centering on a suspended moment, the work captures the instant when a body is snatched out of everyday life, caught between domestic shelter and public vulnerability. Under the Fourth Amendment, the home is imagined as a legal refuge, a space shielded from unwarranted search and seizure. Many arrests occur just beyond the threshold, where legal safeguards thin out and violence becomes permissible, or when the line becomes compromised.