Wendy Letven | Sascha Mallon | Davina Hsu: A Waking Dream

(New York — April 8, 2026) — If the nocturnal world is the realm of the unconscious mind as described by Carl Jung, then dreams act as a nocturnal theater of symbols where our souls quietly open the hidden door to the cosmic night. Opening on May 7, 2026 at Fou Gallery, the group exhibition A Waking Dream—featuring artists Wendy Letven, Sascha Mallon, and Davina Hsu—invites viewers to step through this threshold, between the visible and the invisible, the conscious and the unconscious, the inner and the outer.

There could not be a better way to describe the arising thoughts behind this exhibition than with the words of Jung: “Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” It is a vital reminder that true self-awareness comes from introspection rather than external material pursuits—especially in a current era when situationships, FOMO, and ghosting have become the unspoken new norms. In this exhibition, the three artists work across a range of media, including paint, natural wool, clay, aluminum, paper, crochet, wood, and poetry to create a Gesamtkunstwerk: a unified creative environment where architecture, design, and interior merge into a single cohesive whole. This holistic approach encourages the audience to weave the “knots” together with the artists and discover the connection between the fractured ego and the wholeness of the cosmic circle.”

Sascha Mallon’s artistic practice is informed by narratives and imagery rooted in her early exposure to European fairy tales, particularly stories by the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, as well as her experience as a Hospital Artist-in-Residence with The Creative Center at Mount Sinai. In the exhibition, she presents a new work Consequences of a Broken Sky – an immersive, site-specific installation that blends wall drawings with intricate hand-built ceramics, crochet and sculptural elements. Drawing from a lingering poem that continues to adapt into an evolving constellation of blossoms, Sascha Mallon offers a profound meditation on the resilience of life and the “imperfect” beauty of being alive.

Wendy Letven explores a personal language of abstraction that universally implies the mechanism of space and time and the fabric of the universe. Many of her works are created from her abstract interpretations of landscapes and natural phenomena. Her recent body of works explore the “sensation of dreaming” through installations that dissolve the boundaries between the internal psyche and the exterior world. By translating the fluid energy of a “flow state” into intricate paintings, works on paper and laser-cut sculptures, she maps a surreal landscape where cosmic rhythm and microscopic realms converge.

Extending the inquiry into the vastness of the cosmic realm, Davina Hsu’s work functions as a series of anchors and portals for cosmic consciousness and mysticism. For Hsu, the boundary between dreaming and waking is a fluid intersection where altered states and direct insights become “downloads” from the superconscious. Her felted sculptures, such as Clairvoyant and Galactic Guardian, act as encoded symbols made manifest. Clairvoyant activates the pineal gland through techno-mystical frequencies, while Galactic Guardian awakens collective higher purpose as a multidimensional angelic presence. By translating these celestial transmissions into the tangible warmth of wool and gold-leafed resin clay, Hsu invites us to raise awareness of multiple layers of consciousness.

Complementing the exhibition, a series of public programs— including a panel discussion with Civil Art, a ceramic workshop with Sascha Mallon, and a healing herbalism session with Robin Rose Bennett—invites a multidimensional exploration of the psyche through theory, ritual, and craft. By bridging the fragile ripples of individual dreams with the luminous depths of the collective subconscious, the exhibition dissolves the boundary between the dreamer and the dream. It creates a sanctuary for living dialogue, where the solitary soul meets eternal resonance in a shared experience of healing and renewal.

*The press release is based on the essay by Echo Yu He, edited by Iris Zhang.