Nova Jiang’s Recorded Syllable at Chapter NY presents symbol-rich paintings that reflect on memory, time, and disappearance. Referencing Macbeth and drawing on personal history, Jiang uses books, skulls, toads, and flowers to explore loss, legacy, and transformation. Her works evoke cycles of life, cultural displacement, and ecological fragility, offering poetic meditations on what persists—and what fades—as both language and life slip from permanence into uncertainty.
