Tzu Chi Humanistic Youth Centre and The Substation presents Sandstorm in an Hourglass, featuring works by artists Joo Choo Lin, Jaxton Su, and Sebastian Mary Tay. Keeping up with the title of the exhibition, the artworks invite viewers into their 'hourglasses', the metaphorically charged language and landscapes this world has forged and displayed to us.
Held across the two sites, Tzu Chi Humanistic Youth Centre (21-30 August) and The Substation (4-13 September), the interactive exhibition has works that ripple from one site to another – as an extension, a pairing, or a loop of existing concerns. With a shared interest in the appearance and essence of nature, whether observed in their own surroundings or encountered in philosophical discourse, the artists ground their inquiry in materials, shapes, sounds, and forms that are familiar to us.
Most of the artworks, which range from installation, film, sculpture and painting, were produced specifically for the exhibition and present recent questions and new directions in the artists' practices. Keep an eye out for Joo Choon Lin's 聞。梵音 [三 部曲] / pEARs ‘ __/\_/\_/\__ ’ in §pring Trilogy (2020) a three-channel film with sound; Jaxton Su's Ostinato (2020), a single-channel video, papier mache, and paint; and Sebastian Mary Tay's Rain Falling on the Same Hill (2020).
The exhibition is curated by Poland-based artist Magdalen Chua and supported by the National Arts Council, the Arts Fund, and The Glasgow School of Art Creative Network.