OVERVIEW

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Through the eyes of a child is an exhibition composed of artists who perpetuate childishness not merely as nostalgia, but as a radical space for irrational, impossible and invisible experimentation. Simultaneously, the exhibition engages multiple social contradictions, between productivity and playfulness, rationality and imagination, conformity and individuality, that intrude upon each other's boundaries to formulate a world where amateur play invents self-sovereignty, imagination conquers utilitarianism, and irrational gestures become pathways of emancipation and transformation. The essence of Through the eyes of a child resonates with Georges Bataille’s notion of sovereignty as anti-institutionalization and anti-discipline, where artists pursue innocence and naivety, embrace excessive autonomy and construct adventurous utopias through various media. 

 

This exhibition features artists from diverse backgrounds, such as China, Iran, Romania and America, all integrating unique interpretations of childishness. For instance, in Alemayehu Regasa’s paintings, he depicts the transcendence of jazz into saturated color and exaggerated figures, embodying liberation and invisible sensation; rhythm converts into an experience of inconceivable  synesthesia, emancipating audiences from a rigorous dogmatism of materialism. Meanwhile, Andreea Alunei’s The Dance of Form, channels existential uncertainty into a visual mythology where children perceive generational cycles as she underscores the impermanence and fragility of life. Thus, she reveals  vulnerability as a form of irrational courage. Whereas, in Jinghan He’s As Moon Eclipse The Sun, an irrational abstraction becomes a site where childish imagination and adult reflection converge. Mimesis of wings, shells, metamorphic animal bodies, alongside the combination of moonlight and sunlight, the imagery emerges and dissolves into a perpetual flux. Here, the impossible instability itself is not a deficit but a condition of sovereignty. 

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ORGANIZED BY

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Executive Director: Isabell Sliwinski

Chief Curator: Abigail Bruno

Curatorial Assistant: Yukang Tao

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SPONSOR GRATITUDE

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Culturally Arts Collective would like to recognize the benefactor contributions of Michael Megna to the development and artistic innovation of "In Liminal Light."

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