
We have grown accustomed to associating more information with greater knowledge. More images, more access, more disclosure seem to promise a fuller understanding of one another. Yet, as our lives become increasingly visible, the relationship between seeing and knowing appears less certain. What does intimacy mean at a time of hypervisibility?
Closer Still unfolds through glimpses and moments of partial revelation. Rather than offering a complete view, these fragments foreground subtle elements that are easily overlooked: a gesture, a trace, a surface, the suggestion of something beyond the frame. It is often within such details that a different kind of proximity emerges, one that depends less on what is shown than on how closely we attend to it.
The exhibition invites us to resist the speed with which images are so often encountered today, proposing intimacy instead as a way of looking: a gaze that requires time, attention and a willingness to remain with what is not immediately apparent.
My work explores the relationships between time, memory, and present experience. I attempt to observe the present through a perspective of "looking back at now from the future": precisely because I am aware that this very moment will eventually become the past, the unfolding everyday becomes all the more real and precious. Painting thus serves as a quiet mode of observation, allowing fleeting existence to be re-perceived before it dissolves into memory.
— Xinxin Din
Beauty, for me, resides not in idealized perfection, but within the genuine texture of lived-in experience. Before feelings are labelled as ‘melancholy’ or ‘serenity’, they exist merely as fleeting, tangible instants.
What I seek to convey is not only my personal observation, but also the viewer’s own unspoken memories - those ghosts of everyday moments one has never fully named, yet always carries within.
— Zong Yu
XINXIN DIN
Albrecht Dürer, Alex Colville, Anselm Kiefer, Wolfgang Laib, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
Five Faces of Modernity — Matei Calinescu
The Magic Mountain — Thomas Mann
Ran — Akira Kurosawa
Wild Strawberries — Ingmar Bergman
SHUCHEN HUA
Invisible Cities — Italo Calvino
Autobiography of Red — Anne Carson
Splendor Solis — Salomon Trismosin
Voynich Manuscript
Piero della Francesca
XINGXIN HU
Domenico Gnoli
Nymphomaniac — Lars Von Trier
Jo Ann Callis
ZONG YU
Contemporary Chinese Realism
Western Classical Figures



















