The Fading Spaciousness
Dates:
March 22 – March 27, 2023
Venue: OXO Tower Wharf Bargehouse, London
Curator:Ding-Ling, Sen Kwok, Yuan Yihang, Yin Peining
Participating Artist: PIJINDIXIANG, Wuchao Feng, Jingkang Tu, Gnosis Wang, YuQing Shi, Wenhai Ning, Chengyan Sun, Na Li, Haining Wang, Chenshuo Xu, Ding Ruyi, Annan Shao, Roger Qian, Wanyu Ren, Changpeng Li, Miner Zeng, Xinran Liu, Yewon, Lee Xinglin Zhao, Junyi Huang, Anais Leung, Jarong Chen, Xinyi Wu, Rong Bao, Ruiyao Zhu, Zhuo Yao, Cao Xin, Jabao, Guan Guan, Zeng Jiujian, Xiniming Cai, Zheng Wu, Lin Ye, Zichen Yin, Li Rui, Yingying Zhang, Ziteng Zhang, Yique, Freya Fang Wang, Jing Xu & Vic Fu, Ke Peng, Dingyue Fan, Qipeng Deng, Wenqiang Jia, Yue Yin, Zihan Mei
Academic Support Partner: Underline Art Space
“Drifting across the nurturing plains, we stagger upon cracked earth.”
In The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot summoned the image of a barren wilderness to express spiritual desolation. Today, the “spaciousness”—once a realm for free expression and self-discovery—appears to be eroding. As spaces of purity and openness contract under cultural, technological, and psychological pressures, we are left to question: what is the wilderness we now walk through, and what remains of it?
The Fading Spaciousness takes this disappearance as both its starting point and thematic core. Through an expansive presentation of emerging voices, the exhibition turns its gaze toward the vanishing edge of the wild—the internal terrains of the individual, the crumbling outlines of social norms, the dislocation of spiritual landscapes. Rather than offering resolution, it engages the wilderness as a metaphor for multiplicity, disruption, and renewal.
Spanning time, geography, memory, and ideology, the exhibition maps a shared tension: between individual and world, community and class, imagination and recollection, landscape and lived experience. These multidimensional perspectives illuminate not only the shifting presence of the wilderness, but also the forces—overinformation, blocked paths, normative structures—that threaten its very existence.
Against this fading backdrop, the exhibition offers new frameworks for perception. It invites us to consider not only what is lost, but how we might reconstruct—through gaze, through form, through the unique architectures of self—a space in which to rethink our relationship with freedom, estrangement, and survival. The Fading Spaciousness is not a lament, but a collective proposition: that through artistic imagination, new fields may yet emerge.
语言之后消失的旷野 时间2023年3月22日-2023年3月27日地点伦敦OXO Bargehouse Gallery策展人 仰成 (Sen Kwok)、于澪、袁一航、尹珮宁参展艺术家
PIJINDIXIANG, Wuchao Feng, Jingkang Tu, Gnosis Wang, YuQing Shi, Wenhai Ning, Chengyan Sun, Na Li, Haining Wang, Chenshuo Xu, Ding Ruyi, Annan Shao, Roger Qian, Wanyu Ren, Changpeng Li, Miner Zeng, Xinran Liu, Yewon, Lee Xinglin Zhao, Junyi Huang, Anais Leung, Jarong Chen, Xinyi Wu, Rong Bao, Ruiyao Zhu, Zhuo Yao, Cao Xin, Jabao, Guan Guan, Zeng Jiujian, Xiniming Cai, Zheng Wu, Lin Ye, Zichen Yin, Li Rui, Yingying Zhang, Ziteng Zhang, Yique, Freya Fang Wang, Jing Xu & Vic Fu, Ke Peng, Dingyue Fan, Qipeng Deng, Wenqiang Jia, Yue Yin, Zihan Mei
下划线角色 学术支持单位“涌过养养平原，
蹒跚在干裂的土地。”
英国诗人艾略特的长诗《荒原》中借荒原的意象表达了精神世界的幻灭。当纯粹的表达被限制，自由的空间被挤压，旷野——这一为自我探索所建构的世界也许正消失。
我们此时徒步于旷野之中，呼唤复苏的希望,将视角投入旷野及其消失的边界，注视于在独特境遇下个人边界的探索，社会规则的窥探，精神世界的呐喊:从时间与空间的跨度上深入和拓展旷野的内涵，完成从个体经历到群体意识的共构。从个体与世界，社群与阶级,想象与记忆,景观与经验，机遇与挑战等等多维度视角，呈现旷野的存在与变迁，思考既定意义、被阻挡的路径、碎片化的过载信息等使旷野消失的原因，及其背后映射之道。我们着眼于生存的现状并以凝视和多种独特的自我建构路径，为观众观察和体验世界提供新的可能性。
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