Taking the multiple perceptions of light as a starting point, this exhibition gathers 40 pieces of works by 26 Chinese and foreign artists, together with the invited visual and spatial design by the participating artist and architect Han Duk-Il, to start an adventure of re-comprehending the light in the context of the interweaving of streams of light.
For this too old and familiar theme of light, we no longer need to emphasise how its intellectual, technological and thematic changes have shaped the history of art, or how it has been imbued by different cultures with a wealth of meanings such as brightness, warmth, etherealism, transference, fascination, and the interdependence of light and shadow. The word "enlightenment", one of the hallmarks of modernity, comes from the French word "lumières", which means light. Let the light of reason illuminate the world. As a matter of scientific common sense, the image of light entering the human eye is the basis of all visual phenomena and the visual arts. The nature of light is often described as a stream of photons in a specific frequency band, with wave-particle duality.
But for contemporary people, accustomed to dazzling spectacles and media highlights, and having survived the darker moments of crises, is there still a desire for larger, more persistent, brighter or more blinding beams of light? Perhaps at this moment of transition, we can no longer rush to presuppose a single, solid, universal light source, but rather capture the heterochromatic light and shadows projected from different dimensions that flow, change, and intertwine. Therefore, this exhibition hopes to start from contemporary people's daily experience of light, from near to far, under the four dimensions of light in the eyes, light on the screen, light in space, and light in time, and to stimulate more active and diversified imaginations through artworks in various media.
