Group Exhibition Himalyas Museum, Shanghai
The Victorian poet Gerard Manley Hopkins coined the term "Inscape," suggesting that every living being possesses a unique, God-given essential quality that distinguishes it from others. Hopkins believed that it was the duty of the artist or poet to recognize this "Inscape" in nature and convey it to others through their art.
As individuals with unique perspectives and a distinct discursive authority, artists refract their inner insecurities and the existential pressures imposed by the external world through responses that may seem biased yet resonate powerfully. Through their artistic practice, they redraw these unknowable yet oppressively intangible "Dark Inscapes." Collectively, they reflect and articulate the myths and challenges faced by the younger generation growing up in contemporary society.
By responding to the interplay between reality and the self, they reconstruct, repair, and embrace the wounds between memory and truth. They confront the formless energies within—darkness, chaos, anxiety, fear—and give tangible expression to the dark subconscious through artistic methods, revealing these implicitly significant referents.
The ten participating artists explore these inner dark essences from diverse perspectives, inviting the audience to bring their personal experiences and step together into this latent, self-referential, hidden, and elusive realm of darkness.
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