Centered on temporality, scales of perception, and traces of life, the exhibition explores the condition of individual lodging within a vast universe. The core premise of the exhibition proposes that scale is not merely a spatial measure, but something shaped by the viewer's perspective and temporal experience. The vibrant vitality of summer stems precisely from minute survival activities, such as insects chewing leaves or boring into tree trunks. Insects live within their own limited temporal dimension, incapable of foreseeing the tree’s eventual demise. Human beings are similarly bound by the boundaries of their own perception, often mistaking the fleeting present for eternity while constructing self-meaning within the temporary.
Xu Chen:
Lodging as Mayflies
Exhibitions
Artists
Alexandra Errington
Joana Galego
Kay Gasei
Nicolas Gaume
Gulja Holland
Baige Li (李百舸)
Yichen Li (李依宸)
Daniel Roibal
Ziyun Xu (徐子芸)
Kangjun Zhong (钟康君)
Zach Zono
Beyond Walls
About
EY PROJECTS is a gallery specialising in emerging artists on an international scale. In addition to showing local Chinese artists, EY Projects collaborates intensively with Western artists and those of the Global South, committed to introducing diverse artistic expressions to the audience and facilitating meaningful connections and dialogues between China and the rest of the world.
From its inception, EY PROJECTS has stayed at the forefront of the digital marketplace to showcase the narratives of the artists, enabling stories to be told beyond linguistic and geographical boundaries. Opening in Beijing in 2024 and relocating to Shanghai in 2025, EY Projects continues its mission to dismantle the binary opposition through art between the Self and the Other, the Local and the Foreign, the Near and the Far, facilitating worldwide reciprocal understanding.
Centered on exhibitions, publishing, and interdisciplinary collaboration, the gallery engages with core issues in contemporary art such as mechanisms of image generation, narrative structures, as well as medium and materiality.