ArtCan is delighted to collaborate with K:Art, a collective of Chinese artists based in London, on a new exhibition in the ArtCan virtual gallery.
From 1st – 14th June, with a Private View at 9.30am on 6th June, the show will be accessible via the interactive gallery on the ArtCan website.
We live in an increasingly frictionless world, where contact is flattened into interfaces, gestures, and immaterial forms of interaction. As resistance disappears, so too does the sense of weight, density, and embodied presence.
ρ ≠ 0 begins from a simple proposition: density has not vanished.
The exhibition unfolds through two overlapping sections. The first explores structures of external density through displaced and reconfigured symbols of history, religion, measurement, trade, and material weight. The second shifts toward internalized forms of density, exploring flesh, infection, psychological tension, and embodied perception. Through this transition, density gradually moves from external structures into the body, emotion, and consciousness itself.
ρ ≠ 0 asks how weight, resistance, and bodily experience continue to persist within an era increasingly defined by smoothness, speed, and dematerialization.
Artist Response:
ρ ≠ 0 brings together artists working across sculpture, moving image, painting, sound, and installation to explore how density continues to persist within contemporary systems of materiality, perception, and embodiment. Through processes of displacement, mutation, fragmentation, encoding, and symbolic reconstruction, the participating artists collectively respond to forms of historical, technological, bodily, and psychological weight.
Works by Dafu Yan, Yuncen Liu, Keren He, Kexin Zhang, and Ruocheng Zhou reconsider structures of external density through systems of measurement, trade, religious symbolism, domestication, cinematic narrative, and grand historical myths, while Yuange Sheng and Victoria Yuan investigate instability, repair, containment, and transformation through fractured architectural forms and organic bodily systems. The exhibition’s second section shifts toward internalized forms of density, where Andrea Samory, Megumi Ohata, Soh Young Lee, Jinseul Park, Xinyan Tan, Kian Hao, and David Koh approach the body and perception as sites in which mutation, emotional residue, digital surveillance, memory, vulnerability, and psychological pressure continuously accumulate. Across the exhibition, density gradually moves from external structures into perception itself, becoming embedded within flesh, consciousness, memory, and affect, while questioning how resistance and embodied experience continue to persist within an increasingly frictionless and dematerialized world.
ArtCan’s response:
Exploring the space and connection between the other works, ArtCan artists respond to the overlapping and coexisting conditions of external and internal density and modes of contact. Their works seek to bring contours, rhythms, symbols, structures, and reconfigurations of historic narrative, memories and materialism.
Featured Artists:
Chris Avis – Elizabeth Mikellides – Henriette Busch – Linda C Burrows – Louise Dale Chalmers – Paul Butterworth – Svetlana Atlavina
