Gene Gallery is is delighted to announce the group exhibition “A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream” by curator Chen Junyao. Artist: Guo Yage, Wang Shiwen, Liu Lu, Akiko Ueda. The exhibition is from April 22, 2023 to May 26, 2023. Special thanks to Luo Shiping for his contribution.

With the expansion of media technology, the individual visual experience is gradually squeezed by the wave of machinery, and all stimulation and spiritual experience tend to be numb. “A star at dawn” was originally a paradise for human’s perpetual joy, wandering around under the cloak of melancholy, but now under the guidance of technological accelerationism, human beings themselves will cut off their roots. Can Hartmut Rosa’s “Resonance” thought be delayed or not? Alienation from accelerated society is yet to be known. 

The exhibition hopes to create a space to store fantasy. In the space, the data propositions that constitute our daily life are violated by fantasy, the authenticity of image processing is questioned, and the boundary between reality and dream is no longer clear. In front of the wall of the end, the four artists hope to build dreams that can grow, accept, heal and wait for extinction, gently and quietly attached to the wall, even if this is not the antidote needed by the times.

What we can see is only a hero stage scattering elegant and ethereal light; a translucent shell fossil hiding reality; a scripture in the mirror without words, images or shapes. All that we have seen has passed away; all that we have not seen is growing. Everything that is unknowable and uncontrollable is allowed to be captured, just like a star at dawn, a bubble in a stream.