Daily life is shaped by time and also dissolves within it. Time flows slowly, yet at certain moments, it retraces and overlaps. Through our perceptual experiences, we attempt to give it form—“General Present” as a tense signifies a temporal experience, but it also serves as a point of transcendence. In the space beyond the reach of signifiers, multiple forms unfold.
The world is quantified and marked by symbols and units of measurement, where the fluid transformation of things is temporarily segmented and fixed, turning into recognizable phenomena. Time moves through our bodies, layering and compressing our perception and understanding of the world, settling into traces. Where does the gap between us and the ineffable world lie? How does the world become the world? This exhibition brings together 13 emerging artists whose works engage with diverse themes, employing various media to deconstruct and reconstruct perception, weaving dialogues through time. Their creative practices seek to loosen the boundaries of definition, allowing viewing to become a displacement—an opening, an invitation for the audience to re-examine our ways of seeing and perceiving. Within the “General Present”, we explore how we drift within the in-between of the self and the world.
Curator Luo Shuhang