Starting with ‘The Three-Body Problem’ as the origin, artists including Xu Bing, Liu Chuang, Liu Xin, Chen Zhe, Wang Ninghui, and Rohini Devasher, among 15 global artists, have brought more than 15 ‘research-oriented’ artworks based on ‘The Three-Body Problem’ through comprehensive research methods such as artist residencies at scientific institutions. To what extent can we truly understand the truth of the universe we inhabit? Different historical periods of scientific observation have deduced different physical laws. If human scientific research is truly interfered with by ‘sophons’, would physics still exist? This exhibition will take everyone through the state of speculation and imagination before the true answers are revealed. ‘The First Glimpse of Civilization’ aims to explore how ‘The Three-Body Problem’, as a science fiction work, 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 concept restatement of the original ‘The Three-Body Problem’, but rather takes the story of ‘The Three-Body Problem’ as a starting point and open question to discuss issues that are urgent and inspiring in terms of current technological development and scientific research. The exhibition invites visitors to freely move between two exhibition areas representing Earth and extraterrestrial civilizations to speculate on intelligent or life forms ‘other-than-us’. There are no strict boundaries between the three spaces, just as our imagination of alien planets is always ‘Earth-like but not Earth’, and only by retaining the parts similar to Earth can science fiction imagination have profound realistic significance. If we regard ‘the first glimpse’ as a thought experiment, a pebble thrown into the quiet lake of the universe, perhaps in this ‘Earth’s past’ we are in, it will stir up many possibilities. Open from November 9th to February 8th.
The First Glimpse of Civilization: Prologue of the Contemporary Art Exhibition of ‘The Three-Body Problem’
Starting with ‘The Three-Body Problem’ as the origin, artists including Xu Bing, Liu Chuang, Liu Xin, Chen Zhe, Wang Ninghui, […]
