Illiminality: Compressed Spaces
Featuring Adnan Charara & Zhongou Xu
Illiminality: Compressed Spaces challenges the idea that borders are rigid and fixed, instead presenting them as thresholds where identities and meanings are constantly being reshaped. Charara and Xu take us to the spaces between cultural, psychological, and physical boundaries,
where meaning is always fluid and shifting, never fixed.
In Illiminality, compression is not just a physical limit but a driving force behind change. Each of the two artists uniquely explore the tensions found in the unseen forces that shape our inner and outer worlds.
Charara’s work focuses on entropy, the gradual breakdown of order into chaos, suggesting that within compressed spaces, both destruction and transformation occur. His abstract, symbolic art examines cultural identity and the ways we connect and change over time.
Xu’s work looks at how cultural and spatial boundaries are constantly in motion, turning these "in-between" spaces into areas of negotiation and reinvention. His In the Name of Walnuts series, for example, transforms a simple object into a tool for exploring the tensions of certainty and doubt in Chinese culture.
Charara and Xu invite viewers to reflect on the structures that shape our sense of belonging, and how the spaces we occupy—whether real or imagined—are always in a state of transformation.
The reception will take place on April 4th from 5pm-9pm
Special thanks to the SichuanFuhaoArtMuseum for sponsoring the exhibition with Zhongou Xu.
