Fanyu Lin: The Line That Forgot Its Name traces how the line — originating in art therapy as a mechanism of bodily perception rather than image-making — gradually departs from language's semantic function and transforms into an independent formal presence. Drawing on calligraphy, the repetitive copying of the Heart Sutra, and Cy Twombly's destabilization of legibility, Lin's practice occupies the space between writing and gesture, language and movement. The Embrace series extends bodily sensation onto paper through fingers and calligraphic marks; I Will Protect Her From You gathers black brushstrokes into an overwhelming gravitational center surrounded by illegible white inscriptions — emotion reorganized through spatial force rather than narrated directly.
