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Artists: Xianghan Wang & Liying Peng |
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In an age where machines generate myths and algorithms echo memory, what remains of tradition, and what becomes of identity? Thresholds of Becoming is a meditation on the thresholds we now inhabit—between the organic and the synthetic, the ancestral and the speculative, the intimate and the algorithmic. This exhibition brings together artists who confront the evolving entanglements between humanity, culture, and technology. Through digital manipulation, speculative narratives, and reimagined rituals, these works become vessels for questioning: How is cultural heritage preserved, distorted, or reborn in the digital age? As artists, we find ourselves navigating a landscape where boundaries blur—between what was inherited and what is invented. The pieces in this exhibition embody that fluid space: where AI-generated aesthetics intertwine with reinterpretations of folklore, where ancient symbols are translated through code, and where memory itself becomes both medium and message. Each work captures a transitional moment—a slippage, a becoming—between past and future, self and system, signal and spirit. But these moments are not abstract—they emerge from the deeply personal. As artists raised amid the friction and fusion of Eastern and Western cultural influences, our own creative paths reflect the complexities of dual heritage and transnational identity. Growing up between worlds, we have long wrestled with seemingly opposing forces: tradition and innovation, mythology and machine. This exhibition is, in many ways, a response to that condition. The hybrid languages in these works—visual, emotional, symbolic mirror the layered realities of our upbringing. They speak to a generation shaped by globalization yet rooted in ancestral memory, negotiating between inherited rituals and the demands of an accelerating digital present. Art, for us, becomes both a method of excavation and a form of reconstruction. It allows us to ask: How do we carry forward the weight of tradition without being buried by it? How do we embrace technological transformation without losing the texture of the human spirit? |
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