Intimacy and Absence Beneath the Surface

An oxymoron becomes both title and key: the exhibition weaves intimacy, absence, and resistance through the works of Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Jinbin Chen, Gordon Hall, and Gordon Matta-Clark. Not a show seeking spectacle, but an invitation to slow one’s gaze and recognize the echo of what remains unseen. At its center, Gonzalez-Torres’s work: a string of lightbulbs switching on and off, a metaphor for life, memory, and continual renewal. Around it, Chen’s fragmented, spectral bodies turn the erotic into an elusive presence, while Hall reimagines objects and furniture as social prosthetics to be completed by the viewer’s body. Through his photographs, Matta-Clark exposes architecture’s scars, fissures that become traces of human passage and of what decays. The exhibition calls for a silent listening: the works do not demand answers, but endure over time like a persistent whisper - like the warmth of skin submerged in cold water.