Silent and imposing, traditional monuments hold memory as a stable, enduring material. Gentle Monuments overturns this notion, proposing a more fluid and intimate reflection on commemoration, where fragility and transformation become critical tools. The exhibition brings together practices that interrogate the relationship between history, space, and perception. Chen Wei constructs ephemeral, almost theatrical environments in which precarious objects are fixed into images that condense complex narratives into suspended moments. Cui Jie reworks modernist architecture, dismantling its language of power and translating it into layered compositions where domestic and urban elements intertwine in visual and symbolic tension. Zhang Ruyi employs everyday urban materials to redefine space, creating unstable structures that reflect the desires and contradictions of the contemporary city. Nabuqi transforms functional objects into ambiguous presences, inviting a more sensory relationship between body and form. Guo-Liang Tan entrusts time and material with the formation of the image, while Yasmine Anlan Huang weaves personal memory and collective history into stratified narratives. What emerges is a delicate and complex landscape, where the monument is no longer permanence, but an open process.
