Xi’an exhibition / 2026.09
“Between Presence and Absence”
Between Presence and Absence seems to draw upon the distances between scientific concepts, inviting us to understand art, beyond the perspective of complex systems, as a mechanism through which relationships are generated.
This suggests an open and continuously evolving system—one in which a temporary equilibrium emerges through the interactions among different subjects, media, experiences, and temporalities.
Art does not reproduce the world; rather, it reorganizes ways of seeing within a reality that is constantly changing. The viewer, too, becomes part of this process.
When our attention shifts away from the object itself toward how connections are formed between objects, art is no longer about the completion of form, but about how meaning continues to emerge through the act of looking.
As the world continues to undergo new transformations, what art offers may not be definitive answers, but instead the capacity to understand anew—to perceive the world differently, and to sense it anew.
ShanghArt gallery presents the exhibition ”Talking to Stones“, which is led by ”stones“ to promote a dialogue that transcends the past and the future, the real and the virtual, between people and the self, and people and things.
”Talking to the Stone“ is taken from Simboska‘s poem of the same name. It opens with a poem. The works in the exhibition either use stone as a creative medium, or as a metaphorical image, or as a historical relic, presenting a conversation that transcends time and space. The exhibition will last until August 31.
Yoo. studio was established in 2018, the studio aims to explore the relationships and links between individuals and society, individuals and nature from a broader perspective in today's globalized world.