Event : Close Encounters Slow Art Tour

Exhibition : Asking Every Day : Hu Xiangcheng’s Retrospective
Venue : Power Station of Art.
For its upcoming slow art experience, SPOTTED invites you to join Close Encounters artistic expedition to one of Shanghai’s contemporary art institutions that currently holds a retrospective of an accomplished Shanghainese artist whose art transcends the boundaries of culture, region, material, and form.

The solo exhibition we invite you to explore together captures the complexity and diversity of the artist’s oeuvre in all its splendor. As you step into the exhibition and you’re not just viewing art—you’re participating in a dance orchestrated by the artist’s invisible hand. It is as if a brilliant choreographer guides your movements through his sculptures, installations, and paintings. You’ll find yourself squatting, kneeling, walking, and suddenly changing direction, all while experiencing a whirlwind of emotions—bewilderment, wonder, surprise, and discovery.

But the true dance occurs within your mind. The exhibition sparks a frenzy of thoughts and inquiries. The pieces pulsate with energy, challenging us to decode their meaning and continue our quest for truth.

When we visit exhibitions of such scale and complexity, how do we begin to make sense of what we see, how do we connect and engage to the multitude of concepts, colors, shapes, materials, and sizes ?

And more importantly, how do we turn any given experience of visiting a gallery or a museum into a fun, memorable, meaningful, and, dare we say, transformational ?

Join us to find out.
During our experiences, we will be constructing meaning through a seemingly simple idea : we will bring what we know, and the participants will bring what they know. We will experience the magic of group interaction, the thrill of discoveries being made, and the excitement of suddenly expanding horizons of what we can see, think, and feel.

Close Encounters art experience is designed in a way that demonstrates important distinctions between the way we can experince art : between passive and active forms of exploration, between receiving and doing, between the intense, contemplative practice of looking and a dynamic interactive act of play in art spaces. It offers mindfulness and activity/language-based approaches to awaken to the presence of art.