The world is changing as man creates; man claims to have acquired God’s wisdom, and transforms the blueprint of nature into new images, from which he gains endless aesthetic satisfaction. Everything in nature is thus reduced to a prop in the miniature garden of civilization. The mountains, gullies, bridges and rivers in ancient poems are now settings for a consumer culture. Man manipulates things around according to the upgraded aesthetic demand serving as an instruction handbook.

Entitled Far Away Beauty Lingers, this exhibition has two connotations: beauty here refers to an aesthetic judgment built under the guidance of reshaped world view and ideology, it is a second-hand reality characteristic of this age. The real beauty, on the other hand, is like memories of childhood parotitis, has become part of the remote past. “Far Away Beauty Lingers” in this context serves as a forever utopia among nightmares of man.

This exhibition features works of different medium from ten artists who were born between 1960 and 1990. In their works they express nostalgia and longing for culture and tradition, or for the imagined childhood world. In a patriarchal world established with man’s great reason, we may want to dive with the artists into the chaos of our sub-consciousness, and rebuild our fantasy of “far away beauty”.