Join esea contemporary for this special event including an artist’s talk and a screening of ‘Something Misplaced with artist, Ye Wuji

In an era marked by displacement and increasingly precarious belonging, Something Misplaced asks what it means to witness, remember, and misremember across cultural and geopolitical fault lines. Shot across Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, Something Misplaced is neither documentary nor fiction. Instead, it offers a non-linear meditation on perception, memory, and the elusive contours of ‘Central Asia’—a term burdened by imperial, colonial, and nationalist projections.

Ye’s camera meanders through deserts, alleyways, and cityscapes, weaving together fragments of landscape and thought. What emerges is an array of interrupted narratives: a textured reflection on the slippages between place, history, and identity. In the quiet gaps between images, Something Misplaced probes the dissonant echoes between ‘China’ and ‘Central Asia’, challenging how cultural and political understandings take shape, unravel, and reform.

Ye’s work unsettles boundaries, offering viewers an invitation to sit with—and reflect upon—disorientation. This event creates space for conversation across regions and disciplines, surfacing the voices of those who live, work, and create in between.

Taking place alongside ‘The Contest of the Fruits’, the first UK institutional solo exhibition by the internationally acclaimed art collective ‘Slavs and Tatars’.