SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Love Letter by Ether

/ INSTITUTION

P.art Lab

/ location

Shanghai

/ Date

2023/05/19-2023/06/25

P.art Lab | JIN HAN:Love Letter By Ether

P.art Lab is pleased to present the solo exhibition Love Letter by Ether by Jin Han , the artist’s first solo exhibition this year following the series of exhibitions such as Wasteland Log and Storm Hunter, which will exhibit more than ten representative works selected from the artist’s five creative series in the past three years.

Ether is the fifth element in addition to water, fire, air, and earth in the Five Element Theory proposed by Aristotle more than 2,000 years ago, and it has experienced its introduction, development, decline, and extinction until it was given new vitality and spirituality, just like the original name of the Internet, Ethernet, which symbolizes ubiquity and infinite interconnection. To Jin Han, the doctrine of Ether is like a letter that was inserted into the artist’s mailbox through time and space, and when he popped off the dust on it and sat down to read it carefully, he found a huge amount of information inside this wordless letter, so confusing and intriguing.

The exhibition is covering various media such as oil painting, wood panel synthesis, and installation. The works start from several dimensions such as astronomy, meteorology, geography, and human medicine, presenting a grand yet intimate dialogue in space and time with the help of electronic medical instrument, microscope, the naked eye, astronomical telescope, and even meteorological satellite and radio telescope in layers. The artist hopes to reinterpret the rational diagram by hand, using the language of painting to scale the perspective at will, so as to extract the abstract spirit that exists in the elements of science popularization, and let the poetry contained in science be seen by everyone so that the works full of temperature become a Love Letter By Ether sent to every audience.

If the universe is everything, and human beings in it have never grasped the yardstick to measure this vast and infinite mother, why is it that the limited conditions and finite destiny have never stopped us from imagining and being fascinated by the unknown and other worlds? Perhaps it is because we cannot see the end of our knowledge that the love and faith we place in the stars are stronger and more resolute. “Foolish knowledge is romantic.” Let’s invite Mr. Science to listen to the elegy of the meteor that wanders into the atmosphere.