A digital archive of language, memory, and creative censorship
What Cannot Be Said is a two-part digital project that explores how truth disappears—and how people speak in spite of silence.
The first part, GFW Glossary, is a living dictionary of banned, re-coded, and re-invented words used by Chinese netizens to survive censorship. Here, each term is both a trace of erasure and a gesture of resistance. Language becomes camouflage. Meaning hides in plain sight.
The second part, Visual Works, transforms absence into image. Through digital collage, conceptual artifacts, and performance fragments, these pieces respond to what has been deleted—protests, posts, histories, names. What is missing becomes visible again, not through facts, but through form, emotion, and distortion.