2025.04.27 – 2025.05.03
Nihil·Cycle — A Solo Exhibition by Zhang Jing-Ying
歸墟 [Nihil·Cycle]:張靖瑩個展
|Exhibition Concept
From eternity’s vast emptiness to a fleeting moonlit moment — this exhibition draws from the metaphor of “Indra’s Net” in Huayan Buddhism, where each fragment reflects the whole. In unseen dimensions, all things that seem separate are but different faces of the same essence.
Nihil·Cycle unfolds across layers of translucent fabric suspended in space, forming dimensional portals where AI-generated images search for an exit from the repetition of ordinary life — a next universe waiting to be found.
Fluorescent prints on sheer veils capture ghostly rings of life, frozen glimpses of a thousand cosmic worlds. As viewers walk between vertically arranged curtains, their bodies become moving bridges. A spectral woman, projected and suspended in time, endlessly repeats a ritual: holding out her palms to receive a bloodstained memory card from a war reporter, a paper plane folded from a prescription slip, or a constellation made from fish roe at a twilight market. These are not relics of the past, but living “transmission nodes,” folded moments of time and space — vessels of memory flowing across civilizational cycles.
Reincarnation, here, is not linear but net-like. Through projection, repetition, and vertical transparency, fragments of life form a collective montage — voices layered, realities intertwined. All things arise without fixed selfhood, appearing only through converging causes and conditions, uninterrupted and ever-changing. Truth, like the void, leaves no trace — yet permeates all.
Note: “Nihil” (歸墟) originates from Liezi: Questions of Tang, describing a vast abyss east of
the Bohai Sea into which all rivers and celestial streams pour without increase or decrease. It is both the end that swallows all and the cycle that maintains balance — a poetic embodiment of the Dao: without beginning, without end, ever returning to its source.
Nihil·Cycle — A Solo Exhibition by Zhang Jing-Ying
Dates | April 27 – May 3, 2025
Hours | 2:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Monday to Sunday)
Venue | FOG ARTS, No. 94 Qian St., Shilin District, Taipei
Opening Tea Gathering | Sun, April 27, 4:00 PM
Live Performances |
4/27 (Sun)，16:00-17:00
5/03 (Sat) ，19:00-20:00
(Please register in advance via ACCUPASS)
展覽理念與作品介紹
萬古⻑空，一朝風月，如華嚴宗「因陀羅網」的隱喻，每一現象皆映照全息的宇宙，在不可見 的維度中，所有看似分離的事物，實為同一本質的不同顯現。本次展覽以數幅透明布幔為維度 介面，透過AI演算去找尋複日常之外的「下一個宇宙出口」。
螢光印刷的透明介質，猶如看不見摸不著的生命年輪，定格於三千大千世界中的一瞥。當觀者 穿梭於縱向排列的布幔，肉身成為一座移動的橋。真人投影的虛像在其中永恆循環——她掌心 向上，接納戰地記者染血的記憶卡、社區診療室用處方簽折成的紙飛機、或黃昏菜市裡用魚卵 排列的星系。這些物件並非靜態遺產，而是時空摺疊的「傳輸觸點」，在看似隨機的因緣際遇 下，成為文明迭代的記憶甬道。
傳承並非線性，而是網狀的時空摺疊。展覽將生命經驗的「輪迴」解構成層層不期而遇的數據遷徙，投影中女人的影層疊交錯，透明布幔的縱向穿透，讓所有場景恰好形成一場眾聲蒙太奇。萬物雖無自性，卻因緣和合而顯現，且此顯現無有間斷。無有入無間，真理如虛空，無所不在卻無跡可尋。
註:「歸墟」最早見於《列子·湯問》，「渤海之東，不知幾億萬里，有大壑焉，實惟無底之谷，其下無底，名曰歸墟。八紘九 之水，天漢之流，莫不注之，而無增無減焉。」「墟」，既是「吞噬萬物的終點」，也是「維持宇宙平衡的循環系統」。「歸 墟」被視為「道」的具象化 —— 不增不減、無始無終，如《道德經》「大曰逝，逝曰遠，遠曰反」，萬物終將回歸本源。
展期 | 4 / 27 – 5 / 3
時間 | 14 : 00 – 20 : 00 ( 週一至週日 ) 地點|霧空間 台北市士林區前街94號
現場表演 |
4/27 (日)，16:00-17:00
5/03 (六) ，19:00-20:00
(請於ACCUPASS 活動通 預先報名)
|創作者介紹 張靖瑩
創作如同輕撫時間的紋理，以身體為尺，丈記憶與當下的微妙距離。期待在光影交織處駐足，將離散社群的絮語、數位時代的集體脈動，緩慢轉譯為日常空間中的呼吸與凝望。希望透過沉浸式敘事與跨域合作，嘗試在虛實的邊界鋪設柔軟的通道，邀請觀眾共同拾撿那些埋藏於科技生活裂縫中的永恆瞬間，在某道晨光中偶然浮現的悸動。所謂邊界，或許只是等待被新想像的相遇之地。
|About the Artist
Jing-Ying Zhang, traces the subtle textures of time through her body — measuring the distance between memory and presence with breath, gaze, and movement. Her practice lingers in the interstices of light and shadow, weaving together whispers of diasporic communities and the rhythms of the digital age.
Through immersive narratives and interdisciplinary collaboration, she lays soft passageways across the virtual and the real, inviting viewers to rediscover eternal moments hidden in the cracks of technological life, as the fleeting tremors of morning light. For Zhang, the notion of “border” is not a boundary, but a space of reimagined encounters.
