《Never odd or eveN》

Organized by Edouard Malingue Gallery

How to unfold our minds and perceptions so that we may hear the landscape that we do not
see is an endeavor and dream that dances with the question of sensibility—mysteries are not
in things but rippling from artists' actions and our ceaseless conspiracy.

The exhibition premise departs from artists' peculiar actions and sensitivities vis a vis
conceptualizing artistic ideas and expressions with their own formal grammars so as to
speculate and investigate social relations and agencies. Their actions do not seek representation
but rather create agents and sources of evidence that allow us to mobilize ourselves again in
reality. In order to read aesthetics informed by the seamless conversations and compositions
they initiate, and to connect knowledge, imagery and narration against institutional power
and violence, this exhibition proposes to study artists' action forms and provide ways of
seeing contemporary art beyond visibility and display—that is, in multiple layers and dimensions
in order to indicate various realms for aesthetic understanding as well as continuity that take the
form of lives.

In our post-Duchamp age of media society, we are driven by new quests to understand and rediscover the meaning, presentation and possibility of the art object—material or not, and functioning in complex social fabrics beyond the act of registering new artistic concepts.
Correspondingly, the exhibition as a form for art presentation faces new challenges
and seeks to access and generate active communication between different systems,
institutions, ideologies and realities. The project title Never odd or eveN points to the
spectrum between integers in mathematics, or any complete entity in a literal approach,
suggesting an unbound space to discover new relations and activations. As a palindrome,
it provides a passage for travel and return, while the exhibition itself acts as an aesthetic
vehicle for presenting projects in the juxtaposed structure of a parallax, illustrating the
rendezvous between art and life on the same platform, or via multiple perspectives,
directed by the audience. It is a contemplative medium for meeting more ends or
beginnings. It shows how form exercises affection and how we are affected to act and
run in a contemporary temporality.