DWELLING

Haoting Wu
Lei Lei
Maggie Meijun
Tianyi Xu
Xufei Qiao

curator： Hui Qi

Opening: 15th January, 6-8pm 2026

‘All things are in flux.’ We live in this eternal present. Faced with the inevitable passage of time, ‘preservation’ seems to be a human instinct. We try to counter the ever-changing universe through archives, but this often makes us more deeply aware of the essence of disappearance. The ‘dwelling’ mentioned by Heidegger is not simply living, but ‘settling down amidst flux’. Since we cannot defeat time, perhaps we can choose a more dignified way of coexistence. This is a question about memory and existence.

This exhibition is a contemplation on time, memory, existence, decay, and eternity. It seeks to find the order and beauty of the essence of all things amidst fragmentation and disappearance, inviting the audience to jointly explore the connection between the present and the past, and to delve into the ‘asynchrony’ between memory, the individual, and the era, exploring how to place memory in a changing world.

Ultimately, Dwelling is searching for order and beauty amidst fragmentation and disappearance, exploring the inherent laws of all things. Observing how memories precipitate, how nature evolves, and how the present moment seamlessly flows into the river of the past and becomes the source of the future. In the face of the void where ‘everything flows,’ we touch a deeper, more resilient ‘eternity’.

In the void where everything flows, all our attempts to resist time ultimately shape who we are today.