Indoor Weather: Curated by Fiona Xiangyi LU, WANG Shiying

The mind is also a living soul. The ambient within a living space arouses unique sensation.

The residential space varies from person to person. In Heidegger’s “Dasein”, the influence of spatial structure exceeds that of time and so does that of the dwelling place. The time carrier and distributor seem to give way to the Anthropocene’s experience in space. The house built on modern technology is a private mirror where the true mingles with the false. As stated in Jean Pierre Vernant’s Myth and Thought among the Greeks, the relationship between Hestia and Hermes subtly expresses the opposition of spaces, and the goddess of virginity, who controls the internal order of the hearth, closely related to the god of transformation and boundaries, introduces openness and flow to support a center and different points.

In the moment of strategic deprivation of power, everyone becomes mediocre in pursuit of efficiency and urgency. Leisure is a poetic self-reflection, and the living space should be a sanctuary to escape from the 24/7 work. Poetic rhythm bears creation during recesses, and art is granted with the imagination of others. Linked with imagination and image, we are brought to the transition state towards the exit. Like poetic entity, it quietly melts into the activities of fingertips and steps, and becomes a part of ourselves that extends our soul. The work becomes something beyond the rules of filling and recording, thus opening up difference spaces. Feelings of anxiety, happiness and hesitation are drawn by the logic of art. In the constant transformation of material forms, when the spatial attributes of creation in the home space appear in the same or similar way, the space will be endowed with poetry and become poetry itself.

The artists of this exhibition illustrate the creative impulses in the self-cultivated space by using the exhibition areas as tools to transpose the living space. The exhibition opens up a multi-functional connection between the audience and the artworks, the residence and the exhibition space, and among artistic positions. The works catch the distinct nature of targeted living spaces, using them to form new creations. The inner experience of the space is the transfer of self-generated functions. Leisurely creation is fleeting, yet reflective of the foundations of human nature. As living subjects, behaviors, norms, and patterns always leave traces of themselves. We regard space as a container forged by our flesh. The forging blends the poetry of these works with experience, sensation and unconsciousness.