Kalinca Costa Söderlund

Qingyuan Liang’s hand-drawn illustration, picture books, zines, and graphic novels are a metamorphic realm where memory, aloneness and restoration are merged. Her art is a rich emotional terrain, in which the viewer is invited to explore inner life with calm and slow pace, using attentiveness as a mode of quest. The aesthetic experience is imbued with transience, mourning, and mellowness.

If a single word were to define Nelson Qin’s curatorial practice, it would be ‘holistic’. There is no imposition of a predetermined concept; rather, Qin’s ideas and aesthetic reasoning are situated, responsive, and materially attentive. If a single concept were to define his methodology in terms of composition and the structuring of elements, it would be ‘cosmic and existential harmony’, which manifests as a systemic, relational, and integrative worldview whereby every element is interconnected.

Nowadays, the management of life and the body — from our quotidian activities and tasks to health, reproduction, and the biological dynamics of populations — has become the focus of power, governments, institutions, and other systems of control. This stands in dichotomous opposition to ‘posthumanism’, a socio-cultural movement and philosophical–critical current that challenges traditional, human-centred ways of thinking about identity and knowledge.