Gene Gallery is delighted to announce Passing Between Reality and Falsehood,  artist including Chen Paian, Doreen Chan, Cao Shu, Fei Yining and Avita Guo, the group exhibition is curated by Duffy Du, from August 26, 2022 to September 20, 2022.

In Charlie Kaufman’s film Synecdoche, New York (2008), theater director Kayton creates a faux New York City theatrical project in the theater, recreating his The character (including himself), scenes, and events in real life, perform a theater performance that overlaps with the real world. Through the daily events, identity attributes, and emotional flows between fiction and reality, the film constructs the past and The juxtaposed landscape of the future.

The vision of life brought by utopia is reflected in every period of history, and human beings can’t help yearning for the ideal life and realize it through various forms. It was the ancient Greek philosopher who had been exiled and sold into slavery who would formulate a suitable program for the ideal country in his heart. It was the poet of the Eastern Jin Dynasty who wrote the poem of a lost fisherman who accidentally broke into a hidden paradise, also after the 21st century, with the rapid development of stand-alone games in the Internet era, human beings can reshape their lives in the virtual world. In recent years, online games on the island have become a pure land in the heart. These poems, literature and even games are constantly injected with the afterimages of personal real life, obtaining the joy of true feelings in the illusion.

In the 1990s, Japanese sociologist Shinji Miyatai proposed the “everyday without end” and pointed out that no matter what changes or collapses go through, human beings will still return to their longing for a better life. This exhibition invites five artists. Their works focus on slices of everyday life, real or false, and new creations of various types, such as paintings, reliefs, installations, and videos, based on their accumulated life experiences. events and emotions, reflections on personal cognition, or explorations that ask real questions.