新展预告｜夜晚是地球的影子

Click Ten Art Space and Wind H Art Center are honored to announce its first large-scale group exhibition “Night is the Shadow of the Earth” running simultaneously in both Click Ten Art Space and Wind H Art Center. The exhibition is curated by Xⁿ Office (Penny Dan Xu and Ni Youyu). With 27 artists and artist groups from around the world, this exhibition will present around 50 works featuring a diverse array of media such as sculpture, installation, painting, photography, video, animation, prints, antique and archives. Under the theme of “shadow”, the artists explore the “unknown” and “invisible” in the fields of art, environment, society, psychology, and memory in divergent styles of creation.

“Shadow” is the opposite of “light”, which is a physical phenomenon like the coexistence of yin and yang. We see things because of the presence of light. Light is reflected off the surface of objects, entering our eyes, passing through the cornea, and forming an image on the retina, ultimately enabling us to perceive the world around us. However, shadows hinder our sight. Throughout the history of art, countless artists have admired, studied, and depicted light, while very few have directly confronted the opaque “shadow”. In other words, the art of shadow always exists, but it is often overlooked. 

Shadow mediates between material and immaterial. This exhibition takes “Shadow” as a shared visual reference, in which artists shaped various types of shadow with brushes, dark rooms, plasters or pixels. However, looking beyond the visual reference, “Shadow” has different meanings. Sometimes, it is a thread that travels through time, space, and dimensions. It is a trace of the bygone. In other times, it is the ‘unknown’ of ourselves and our surroundings. It is also the ‘invisible’ that happened to fall outside of our view.

The title “Night is the Shadow of the Earth” is at the same time a scientific and poetic metaphor. This perpetual rotating planet casts through its atmosphere forming an Earth’s Shadow. And in this massive shadow, we have given half of our life to the “unknown” and “invisible”.  Poet Joseph Brodsky once wrote, “The more invisible something is, the more certain it’s been around.” Everything comes from nothing, and the invisible forges the visible. This exhibition about “Shadow” hopes to take artworks as the candlelight, piercing through the material surface, and offers a glance of the immaterial substances in our world.

The exhibition will be held in Click Ten Art Space and Wind H Art Center. It is worth noting that this exhibition is also the debut of a number of important artists in modern and contemporary art history, such as Claudio Parmiggiani and Nancy Sheung. During the exhibition, We will co-organize with the curator team a series of special events including in-person workshops and online talks.