Sub-existence － Those We Aren't Always Aware of

Tao Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan
Dec. 18, 2021 - Feb 26, 2022

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Curator | WANG Rui-Xu

About the soul, Leibniz compares the soul to a “veined marble,” and “carving” is required to reveal these patterns hidden in the rock that are invisible on the surface, just like the soul making the things we are not always aware of to suddenly appear through “sensual connections,” accompanying certain corresponding “petites perceptions” that are often unperceivable; they refer to the tiny perceptions that wander on the fringe of perceptibility. The soul does not easily perceive the existence of petites perceptions, but will be influenced by their cumulative effect. It is these petites perceptions that draw out these indescribable things that sub-exist in a certain dimension of the soul, forming a dual-movement that carries the past and nurtures the future, and, in an infinite state, discloses our self in various moments, but we are unaware of that.“

SubExistence – Those We Aren’t Always Aware of” starts from the senses of “touch-movement,” “hear-sound,” and “see-view,” inviting artists Wang TeYu, Yujun Wang, and Mia Liu, to reference those sub-existences we are not always aware of between the lightness and heaviness of life that exist through invisibility and reappear through disappearance.



Photo | ANPIS FOTO