Booth A14 SWANFALL GALLERY will be exhibiting at the 10th edition of Art Central Hong Kong 2025 Art Fair from 25th - 30th March 2024.
The exhibition Past’s Future, Future's Past envisions the exhibition space as a conceptual Schrödinger’s box, where multiple realities coexist in a state of flux until activated by the viewer’s gaze. The exhibited works navigate the liminal space between past and future, memory and imagination. Untethered from linear temporality, they construct a multidimensional experience in which fragments of history serve as blueprints for the future, while visions of the future reveal the latent possibilities embedded in the past
Each artist constructs their own alternative universe, interrogating the boundaries of time, materiality, and perception. MIAO envisions a post-human era, adopting an archaeological perspective to unearth cultural remnants and interrogate the sustainability of civilisation. Guo Xiaojun reconstructs mythology through metaphor, offering a critical reflection on contemporary society. Li Shuangqiang employs a surreal visual language to create liminal spaces between wakefulness and dreams, using light and shadow to evoke a subconscious experience that is both tangible and elusive; Hu Zeqian reinterprets classical imagery through the interplay of line and colour, reshaping visual experience through chromatic tension and rhythmic composition. Qiu Jiahao engages in subversive ink painting practices, using symbolic imagery to examine desire, temptation, and the contradictions of modern society. Tong Mo employs a keen historical deconstruction and narrative composition to craft intimate scenes that awaken collective memory and cultural identity. Fernando M. Romero approaches his practice as a composer, integrating painting and music to investigate the fluidity of cultural memory. Huang Wei blurs the boundaries between reality and remembrance with his textured, weathered lines, capturing the beauty of the everyday with a restrained yet romantic sensibility. Mark Lawson Bell recontextualises unclaimed objects, weaving between reality and illusion. These works unfold within the tensions between past and future, reality and imagination, offering new perspectives on the relationship between time and experience
Suspended between past and future, reality and imagination, the exhibited works resist definitive resolution, existing instead in a state of perpetual transformation. The past is never fixed, and the future remains fluid, continuously reshaped through shifting perspectives. It is the viewer’s engagement that ultimately activates these narratives, unfolding a dialogue between what has been and what is yet to come