Vivienne Sun's 'Liminality' Suspends Medical Authority at a.d.b.k. Nürnberg

Vivienne Sun's exhibition 'Liminality' at Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg (a.d.b.k.) from February 6 to 8, 2026, explores the threshold between care and control through medical furniture rendered functionally complete but permanently pending. The central work, a hospital-style reclining chair overgrown with black organic forms, remains prepared for a body that never arrives. A large green glass carboy on a wheeled cart suggests postponed procedures. Wall-mounted photographs of a hospital interior on puzzle-piece wooden brackets depict institutional space within institutional space. The three-day duration itself embodies liminality—long enough to experience, too short to settle. Sun's work argues that the forms of medical equipment, independent of any body present, already perform a condition of suspended authority.