This Moment, and the Rest of Time

In this exhibition, audiences are invited into a shared field of presence, where artworks, artistic processes, and everyday life emerge within the same temporal flow. Rather than presenting works as final outcomes, the exhibition understands each form as a temporary state within longer trajectories of material transformation, bodily memory, and repeated practice.

The curatorial framework is informed by ideas rooted in Daoist philosophy, particularly the understanding that harmony does not arise from control, but from attentiveness and response to changing conditions. In the Dao De Jing道德经, balance is not described as a fixed equilibrium, but as something that emerges through following the natural tendencies of things (ziran自然), and through acting without forcing outcomes (wu wei无为). Here, stability is not an endpoint, but a momentary alignment within continuous movement.

For ceramic artist Zhang Yunfei, form arises through sustained negotiation with clay — with gravity, moisture, collapse, and recovery. His works carry time embedded in matter, shaped by the hand’s learned sensitivity to material resistance and possibility. For Tetiana Kartasheva, time and space are experienced physically. Her abstract compositions and spatial arrangements call for heightened awareness, where the body becomes a site of continuous exploration between discipline and intuition, control and instinct, nature and architecture. While working across different media, both artists approach balance as an ongoing act rather than a resolved state.

Alongside completed works, the exhibition brings elements of artistic process into the space — tools, sketches, and traces of making — allowing creation to be understood as lived labor rather than distant inspiration. In this way, memory and experience remain visibly present.

Situated within MEP, a space of daily use and shared rituals, the exhibition resists the neutrality of the white cube. Art does not interrupt everyday life, but unfolds among it. Viewers encounter the works as bodies moving through the same temporal field, where this moment is inseparable from the rest of time — from accumulated practice, inherited knowledge, and the quiet continuity of becoming.

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