This exhibition brings together diverse perspectives to reconsider our place in the cosmos, featuring contemporary artists that work across ancient cosmologies, mythologies, and philosophies as well as contemporary explorations of astrology, consciousness, and planetary thinking. The exhibition highlights the epistemic drive of human civilizations across time and space to venture into otherworlds, while reflecting on the role of contemporary artists as future seekers in continuing this ultimate exploration with new technologies and frameworks.

This exhibition envisions a future of cosmic unity and interconnectedness while critically reconsidering frameworks such as space colonialism, which envisions the universe as a future frontier for expansionism and exploitation, and social-Darwinism, which conceives the cosmos as a competitive "dark forest," both rooted in Cartesian dualism that separates humanity from nature and the cosmos. In an era of rapidly evolving technologies that challenge traditional views on humanity’s enduring questions, the artists employ alternative ways of knowing and innovative techniques to enrich this discourse. The exhibition also highlights contemporary art’s role beyond worldly concerns, emphasizing celestial connections that transcend time and space, guiding us toward a deeper sense of harmony and home. 

The exhibition is conceived as a multimedia environment that reenacts, reconsiders, and reimagines existing knowledge and belief systems through these cosmological perspectives, mobilizing installation, painting, sculpture, and screen-based works with emphases on topography-based creations and an experiential approach.

Co-Curator: Feng-Yi Chu

Artwork Credits:

Yin-Ju Chen, Notes on Psychedelics III- 2-19-20, 2021. Video, mixed-media installation, dimensions variable.

Jui-Lan Yao, Venus, Copper and Objects of Value, 2021, video, mixed-media installation, dimensions variable.

Yu Liu, If Narratives Become the Great Flood, 2020, video, mixed-media installation, dimensions variable.

Jui-Chung Yao, Ark at Sea (Invidia series), 2023, gold leaf and ink on indian handmade paper, 136.5 x 96 cm.