Gene Gallery is delighted to announce the solo exhibition “Neverland” by Artist Ran Kai, curated by Chen Junyao from March 11, 2023 to April 09, 2023.
In the novels of J.M.Barrie, “Neverland” stands in the quiet and magnificent sea, as the place where Peter Pan, a representative character of idealism, grew up. Neverland is an illusory and graceful dream world and a romantic utopia isolated from the world and forever young. In J.M.Barrie’s works, it means ideal, innocence and eternal innocence, but in Ran Kai’s eyes, it has become an unreachable shore across the sea. In his journey towards “Neverland”, the artist uses “looking at the sea” as a clue, presenting his comprehensive material creation practice since 2014 through a fluid image. Unlike the peaceful and leisurely atmosphere commonly associated with the sea, Ran Kai uses “the sea” as a clue to present the complex emotions of joy, hope, longing, waiting, and adventuring in his subconscious in the fluctuating and changing the texture of his works.