The Whip’s Shadow Never Touched the Moon

  • 2025.12.19 – 2026.01.19
    Shangrong Art museum, Guangzhou

    In his poem The Corona, Paul Celan takes love as an entry point to explore the ultimate questions of time, memory, language, and redemption.He acknowledges the fragmentation of human experience, yet yearns for impossible hope to sprout amid the heaviest reality.Taking his verse as a point of departure, this exhibition initiates reflections on resilience and resistance.Through concrete dimensions of reality—ecology, identity, gender, and labor—the exhibition confronts issues directly through artworks, seeking pathways and possibilities for breakthrough.

    The Details (Underwear) series consists of replicas of ancient pottery.By cutting and reshaping the forms, the artist transforms these vessels into shapes strikingly resembling everyday underwear.The artist sensitively captures the connections between pottery and undergarments in form, function, and imagery, bridging—and at the same time ironizing—the grand, sublime and the mundane, everyday cultural associations.Through its distinctive artistic expression, the series creates a perspective that integrates ancient civilization and contemporary consciousness, conveying a playful and multi-dimensional aesthetic experience.

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