Exhibition

In the midst of a Melting Garden

25 Mar 2023 – 29 Mar 2023

Regular hours

Sat, 25 Mar
12:00 – 18:00
Sun, 26 Mar
12:00 – 18:00
Mon, 27 Mar
12:00 – 18:00
Tue, 28 Mar
12:00 – 18:00
Wed, 29 Mar
12:00 – 18:00

Free admission

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RuptureXIBIT +Studio

Hampton Wick
England, United Kingdom

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A soft dialogue with creatives will arise In the midst of a Melting Garden from 25th – 29th March 2023;
spontaneously encounter the reminiscences, emotions, and intimate storytelling that amalgamates into fluidity
will gently permeate the RuptureXIBIT.

About

We invite you to escape from this bustling city, set foot on a soft journey,
unload the stress that shadows you, and be softened and softer in the melting garden we draw on.

The spirit of the exhibition is we value softness as a flow of healing power and see how it relates to artists’
practice by touching human senses. Here, softness refers to an expanded definition aiming to liberate it from
stereotypes. Can we also hear, taste, smell, see and feel soft? The space will be transformed into a warm
immersive garden to see how the audience responds to a variety of softness. The playful and healing show will
grow from here in search of bold and experimental attempts.


The exhibition features an exceptional group of artists: Hannah Archambault, Mae Chan, Nuo Chen (CN), Jessica
Woo Jung Ghil, Feifan Hu, Tianai Hu and Wenjie Yu. Artists draw upon the inherent healing nature of soft
material, whereas participants will be enveloped in a soundscape created by Hannah Archambault, parallel to
the visual experience of the exhibition. The whole experience will lead you to a squishy and lush garden......


Two soft sculptures from Mae Chan, engage with intimacy and touch, inspired by our society, culture and
personal experience, and express the expectation for intimacy through fluid contours or pliable materials.
Another textile installation from Tianai Hu reflects the being towards death philosophy of a lemon tree, seeing
extinction and rebirth as therapeutic power. Feifan Hu’s artworks alternatively present a soft fight back of family
relationships and a tender memory of a confidant by weaving and sewing. The textile artist Nuo Chen (CN)
applied soft textiles to materialize her struggle while she gets lost in her anxiety and finds out the solution lies
in the present, she needs to take a profound observation of the present. In the meantime, Jessica Woo Jung
Ghil’s three paintings will be shown on the show, she comes across with colossal liberation when she turns to
soften and vanish into fluidity and emptiness to reach a state that she strives to reach—-silence. Wenjie Yu
repels cold and hard material, instead, he is inclined to the material that is more gentle and warm. Expecting his
new series of fabric paintings inspired by music’s beat and vibration. Hannah Archambault’s participatory
installation “Embalming anger” takes part into a body of works on anger and its sublimation through soft
gestures, the piece brings values to anger in its way to grow softness/care towards ourselves. She also brings
two sound works, she is very good at capturing small sounds from nature and drawing out the ambiguous feeling
behind them, by layering with voices, she invites to feel the melting wave of the sea and spreads them across
the exhibition space.


In the midst of a Melting Garden is co-curated by Jinyao Wang and Yan Xie.

The PV will be in tandem with RuptureXIBIT Open Studio. Mood Indigo will take care of the great Jazz music.

CuratorsToggle

Jinyao Wang

Yan Xie

Yan Xie

Exhibiting artistsToggle

Tianai Hu

Feifan Hu

Mae Chan

Hannah Archambault

Jessica Woo Jung Ghil

Nuo Chen

Wenjie Yu

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