Soft Ground

Curators

Elephant Vision Lab

Soft Ground Show 1
Communicating Culture, Identity and Emotion
Moving in Space, Place and Threshold.

Soft Ground: Show One brings together contemporary artists whose practices probe the unstable conditions of culture, identity, and emotion within an increasingly hybrid physical–digital landscape. Their works examine how language structures perception, how technological interfaces recalibrate intimacy, and how spatial experience unfolds across both material and virtual terrains. In foregrounding thresholds, between bodies, screens, and environments, the exhibition echoes Bachelard’s claim that “space that has been seized upon by the imagination cannot remain indifferent space.” Each work becomes an active site of inquiry, mapping fluid modes of belonging and proposing new conceptual frameworks for navigating the porous realities of contemporary life.

Private View: 13th December 5:30pm - 8:30pm
Exhibition Open to Public:
14th December 10:00am - 5:30pm
15th December 10:00am - 4:00pm

Exhibiting artists:
ChenQi
Chi Ching Yum
David Alexander
Emma Denby
Evgeniia Kochevanova, (ZUPINK)
Feng Zhao
Finka Jue
Flâneuse du Mal
Lili Shen
Mengyao Li
Mia Ribić
Ornela Aliaj
Pei
Shaw Liu
Shuang Xia
Yu Yu (Spencer)
Yuning Huang
Alexander Collinson & XinYue Ma

Soft Ground Show 2
Reflecting Memory and Time
Grounding in Nature and Environment

Soft Ground: Show Two brings together contemporary artists whose practices probe the interwoven terrains of landscapes and nature, along with memory and time. Their works examine how environments, cities, and imagined terrains, illuminate ecological rhythms and the entanglements of human and nonhuman life. While also exploring the sedimentation of experience, revealing how memory, duration, and material traces shape perception and presence. In tracing these layers, the exhibition echoes James Elkins’ insight that “Art does not merely depict; it suspends time and allows the viewer to inhabit multiple durations simultaneously.” Each work becomes an active site of inquiry, mapping fluid modes of ecological and temporal engagement and inviting reflection on how we inhabit and imagine the worlds around and within us.

Private View: 16th December 5:30pm - 8:30pm
Exhibition Open to Public:
17th December 10:00am - 5:30pm
18th December 10:00am - 4:00pm

Exhibiting Artists:
Allison Gretchko
Diego Cebrian
Ellie Lawrence
El Witt
Grace Fielder
Harsh Pratap Singh Bist
Jack Sanders
Luna Chang
Louis O'Shea
Mark G Lonsdale
Scarlett Hope-Gates
Tianyu Ren
Victoria Gumienna
Willem Keys
Xinyang Chen
Zhenghan Huang
Zhiyi Jin
Alexander Collinson & XinYue Ma