Originating from ‘The Three-Body Problem’, artists such as Xu Bing, Liu Chuang, Liu Xin, Chen Zhe, Wang Ninghui, and Rohini Devasher, among 15 global artists, have created over 15 ‘research-based’ artworks using comprehensive research methods like scientific institution residencies.
How much can we truly understand the reality of the universe we inhabit? Different historical periods’ scientific observations have led to various physical laws. If human scientific research were genuinely interfered with by ‘sophons’, would physics still exist? This exhibition will immerse visitors in the state of speculation and imagination before the true answers are revealed. ‘Prelude to Civilization’s First Encounter’ aims to explore how ‘The Three-Body Problem’, as a science fiction work, a cultural symbol, and a platform linking science and imagination, can give rise to creative practices that resonate and intersect with it. The exhibition is not a scene restoration, visual translation, or conceptual restatement of the original work but rather a starting point and open question to discuss pressing and enlightening issues related to current technological development and scientific research. The exhibition invites visitors to freely navigate between two exhibition areas representing Earth and extraterrestrial civilizations, speculating on intelligent or life forms ‘other-than-us’. There are no strict boundaries between the three spaces, just as our imagination of alien worlds is always ‘Earth-like yet not Earth’, and only by retaining the parts similar to Earth can science fiction imagination have profound real significance. If we consider ‘the first encounter’ as a thought experiment, a pebble thrown into the quiet lake of the universe, perhaps in our ‘Earth’s past’, it will stir up many possibilities. The exhibition is open from November 9th to February 8th.Shanghai ‘The Three-Body Problem’ Contemporary Art Exhibition: Prelude to Civilization’s First Encounter
Originating from ‘The Three-Body Problem’, artists such as Xu Bing, Liu Chuang, Liu Xin,[...]
