Since its opening in 2017, the OCT Box Art Museum has launched 18 thought-provoking, research-oriented and dialogue-centered contemporary art exhibitions. The Museum is committed to integrating art curation, public education and local culture, exploring the relationship between social development and culture-and-art and assuming the social responsibility of promoting contemporary art to the public. Simultaneously, to provide a platform for young artists, the Museum has organized 23 artist-in-residence programs. As an art museum based in Shunde, it puts forward site-specific and experimental ideas of art.
This exhibition selects 20 pieces of art out of the OCT Box Art Museum’s collection, including the forms of video, easel paintings and installation. The works convey the artists’ sensibilities towards society and build their own artistic language and symbols. But in the final analysis, these vehicles and symbols are signifiers. They themselves can be meaningless, but they point to meanings, to the social phenomena of science, philosophy, religion, politics, economy and so on in the contemporary context.
An artist is not only a creator, but also a problem setter. The symbols of his art works point to open answers and put the initiative of thinking in the hands of the public. Art works have become a part of our life, and their contemporary symbols the symbols of our life.