Exhibition Concept:

At earlier times, in the summer evenings during my childhood when I had watched from the valley as swallows circled in the last light, still in great numbers in those days, I would imagine that the world was held together by the courses they flew through the air.

Memory always resists placement and arrangement towards itself and surrounds a place of absence like dust. As described in W.G. Sebald’s novel The Rings of Saturn, in a lonesome strolling journey along a deserted coast, as the weather and terrain change, any moment of triviality or seemingly meaninglessness, becomes a moment to open up a meditation on history and memory. Inspired by the unique writing of the novel – whether it is a disjointed chapter composition, or an antique image interspersed among paper, the work of this exhibition surveys a different profile of time, presenting the flow of real time in an empty landscape, the state of boredom during a trip, or a reflection on historical archives and intimate memories. The exhibition begins from this slow and silent literary experience, which makes fragmented daily returns to the sensual duration of images. In a space transformed into a visual situation, the exhibition moves between the boundaries of event/time and place/space by roaming and viewing, thus triggering the viewer’s respective imagination.

*This exhibition is a preceding project to the “non-syntax Experimental Image Festival” in 2022, and after the exhibition at Calm & Punk Gallery in Tokyo, the participating works will also be shown in an exclusive section of the main festival in Taipei.

Curator:
Jin Qiuyu ｜Hsu Chun Yi ｜Wen Hsu

Participating artists:

Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu ｜Hsuan-Kuang Hsieh ｜ Yuki Harada ｜Pieter Swier
Shaun Finneran & Sofia Petersen｜Daniel & Clara