In Summer’s Slow Time

In Summer’s Slow Time
#Exhibitions
Gao Yuan, Plants in Yun's Room, 2023, Acrylic on paper, 24 × 42 cm / 27 × 44.5 cm | Courtesy Capsule Shanghai

In the suspended stillness of Summer, Capsule presents Summer Drift, a group exhibition that invites visitors to drift gently through artworks guided by intuition and contemplation. Ten international artists engage with a variety of media - from painting and sculpture to photography and video - to construct an emotional landscape that remains open, fluid, and free from rigid narratives or theoretical constraints. The exhibition unfolds through terracotta figures resting in timeless stillness, sound-portraits that turn noise into image, night skies crossed by ghostly birds, and fragmented bodies that whisper personal stories. Each work seems to hold a moment, a gesture, a breath - offering viewers a chance to slow down and immerse themselves in a sensory and mental experience that resists logic and embraces wandering, dreaming, and waiting. What subtly ties these pieces together is a certain lightness of being - a gentle drift echoing the spirit of the season: radiant, porous, and ever-shifting. This is a show to move through like a sun-drenched afternoon, letting details resonate more than any single direction or conclusion.

Viola Canova - © 2025 ARTE.it for Bvlgari Hotel Shanghai