"Faulting, Glimpsing" iterates further on concepts from Tang's 2024 work "Faulting," collapsing material transmutation and geopolitical narratives into a single substrate. The artist systematically arranges coconut coir bricks imported from various countries within the enclosing corridor-like structure. Composed of processed coconut husk powder, these bricks dissolve upon contact with water, serving as a soil medium for cultivation. Within the artist's conceptual framework, the coconut coir bricks are both an organic medium that facilitates the cycle of ecological life and a metaphoric connotation to the ground that upholds institutions, states and nations. The transformation of the material state thereby reflects the inherent instability and fluidity of internal systems. The surfaces bear front pages from mainstream publications of the five United Nations permanent member countries, from four specific days in 2025. News Images are either preserved or excised; as water infiltrates, boundaries liquefy, order dissolves, and embedded seeds germinate, creating fluctuations of legibility between presence and absence. These material phases reveal potential instability beneath appearance, placing viewers within a double fault line of information and materiality.

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