Shibui Spectrum

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"Shibui Spectrum" focuses on Yun Chen's recent explorations in painting and olfactory art, presenting eleven sets of paintings and scent-based works. The term "渋" (shibui) in the exhibition title is derived from the Japanese lexicon, encompassing meanings across taste, emotion, and temporal states: astringency, restraint, and sedimentation―all latent qualities not yet fully revealed. This exhibition is not concerned with the production process of the works, nor with the results of a finalized form. Instead, it highlights the traces left by time―those moments of stillness, repeated viewings, and even abandonment. It is through such processes that the works take shape and gradually transform their internal structures.

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Through the use of scents and series of paintings, this exhibition proposes a non-linear approach to viewing artworks: some images break away from the formal logic of their original sketches, transforming into new narrative structures along a reimagined timeline; others retain unresolved elements from earlier stages, gaining tension through the appreciation of "preservation and continuity from the past." Building upon the multi-sensory exploration initiated in the previous solo exhibition, "Entering the dissipating fog of fragments light," this exhibition employs a framework of "series of Paintings × Scents × Memory." By moving between different sensory works, viewers engage in a rhythm that overlaps with their own memories, recreating a certain unspoken, shared sensory experience.

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