Perpetuity

Artist: Ding Yi, Liu Jianhua, Zhou Xiaohu, Shi Yong, Yang Fudong, Ni Zhiqi, Huang Yuanqing, Xue Song
Curator: Tutu Zhu
Sponsor: China Central Place
Co-organizer: YiGuan ArtLink

Art and time have always maintained tension. Philosopher Peter Osborne believes that the contemporaneity of art philosophy is plurality in temporality. While linear time gradually becomes a barrier to people's understanding of life. Contemporary art not only creates works of the present but, more importantly, interrogates and reconstructs the very concept of time. It exists as the differentiation or fractured togetherness and unifies multiple temporalities in connecting all variations. In this time-broken year, information flows, pauses, and circulates, which blurs boundaries. Alternatively, continuity itself is an illusion.

The exhibition Perpetuity takes "time" as a clue. We select eight artists who live in Shanghai. They reactivate time and belief in their works and create a new relationship within them. While contemporary art that appears in the historical space like a heterogeneity maintains an untimely distance from the present - out of touch with reality and produces a new "virtual" narrative. All identities and existences are temporary, and what lasts is the emergence of art.

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