Exhibition Introduction

Dispersed Migration follows artists Yvette Yang and Yifan Jing (Zorg) as they trace the southward journey of wild Asian elephants from Yunnan. Moving alongside the herd rather than observing from afar, the artists document landscapes marked by migration—crushed plants, burnt shelters, broken fences—through drawings, cyanotypes, sound, and satellite imagery. Their works reveal how elephants, under pressures of habitat loss, governance, and capitalist extraction, become involuntary agents of mobility.

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Zorg’s pencil drawings echo the weight and slowness of movement across farmland, cities, and borders, while Yang’s cyanotypes map the plants found where the elephants briefly rested, layering traces of soil and time. Together with field recordings and satellite data, the exhibition constructs a political geography shaped by non-human agency, where animal movement becomes inseparable from systems of surveillance, displacement, and control.