At the still point of the turning world

January 16 – February 28, 2025

"Time is a point that always comes to mind during my practice. The flow of time is linear, but when we look at history we always find similarities, and many inexplicable phenomena sometimes seem to come from the future. The mundane, everyday feeling of city life sometimes gives a sense of a cycle. The end of many things is the beginning of another. The ups and downs of inner mood changes are also like a cycle.

I am interested in the point where the past and the future meet; you could call it the present. I like the explanation of a scientist: "The time we are not going towards and are not coming from somewhere, that's where the dance is, that's where the magic is. Life is in here and in the now."

As much as possible, I want to express through my brushstrokes that what is happening on my canvas is not necessarily a memory or the future, but that it is happening now, that it is happening when the viewer sees it, and that it will not stop when the viewer leaves.

Some of the works in this exhibition are relatively large, some are very small, some are more dynamic and some are more static. I want the duality to exist not only on a single canvas, but also in the gallery space, where stillness and movement, light and dark, quiet and noisy, forward and backward, manifest in the gallery as the works interact."

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;

Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,

But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity,

Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards,

Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point,

There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.

I can only say, there we have been: but I cannot say where.

And I cannot say, how long, for that is to place it in time

T.S.Eliot, excerpt from BURNT NORTON (No. 1 of 'Four Quartets')