Conceiving what we’re devoid of while exchanging with others “what is in our mind”; “the imagined (be it daunting or enchanting)” motivates the exploration into the unknown, and thus it is the writing towards the future and also a chronological narrative. The imagination finally builds up the desire to write, which is in essence the core of history.

The debut exhibition will present the audience with poetic artworks. Artists categorized into five groups shall jointly reveal the poetic dimension of “water=time”; the audience shall experience the spiritual spectrum threaded by water, ranging from the static, visual and relatively intrinsic reflective mediation, to the subject of life which is incessantly smashed and reorganized by the external moving waves. 

Time is continuous and indivisible. The past, the present and the future are linked and the circulation goes on and on. The sensory experience evolved from different levels leads the audience to question the essence of time with the most straight forward emotion, to shuttle between the reality and the imagination, and to understand life standing in the narrow space between dream and reality. Strolling in it, the audience could not only wander the imaginary aesthetic world, but also ponder over the significance of the life journey through hintsfrom these slow and repetitive images. Situated in the island city Xiamen, we expect a renewed attention on the relationship between the water surrounding our life which is frequently neglected and the soil we stand on. Using “island” as the methodology and taking advantage of the character of water (linear and reflective), this present-based exhibition strings the history and the culture in history, and leads us to the unknown future.