Reverb: Reharmonization, Reconstruction, Intrusion and Others.

“Exhibition, as a narrative, provides what kind of imagination.”

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In this exhibition, the curator approaches the curatorial statement from a meta-discussion aspect, similar to art critique. From a multiple perspectives, this curating practice attempts to write about the thesis, artistic approach, art form and the relationship with society. This method is an analogy to the term: “Reverb”.

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This exhibition attempts to organize several interpretations from the intertextuality of artworks in the exhibition space and create new meaning from the relationship between the works. This method is not trying to resolve the contradictions between the works; however, it’s to “reharmonize” or to reconstruct the meaning of the works. Under this curatorial practice, the exhibition probes into the possibilities to create new concept, how the artist respond to the contemporary scene, and how to search a contemporary way of seeing.
 

The exhibited works range from painting, document, video, photographs, sculpture, and pottery. The symmetrical exhibition space creates a non-linear visitor flow, which enable the audience to experience the works from an arbitrary order. In the exhibition space, the curator provides several brochures with different version of curatorial statement/ art critique, which guide the audience through a diversity of viewpoints. Moreover, there is no prior or secondary order between brochures. The reading order can be scattered, non-linear, or non-tree-structured.
 

In this curatorial practice, the exhibited works have cross different topics. These include space/place/local, technology, the essence of painting, virtuality, materiality, body, memory, representation, diagram, internet culture, image, surveillance, power, and modernity. All these topics reharmonize, reconstruct or even invade each other’s boundary. Eventually, the exhibition provides an insight of what our contemporary experience would be.