A group exhibition by Chinese & Australian artists: Hui Xin, Li Rui, Michael Eather, Wu Xueliang.

In (between) Heaven and Earth, time seems to stop. Everything seems to be in suspended motion, caught in a moment between being and not being, between existence and nothingness, between life and death, as if captured for a moment that is between the past and the future. Rocks hurtle through empty space, peanuts inhabit a warped space-time universe, and restless waves have stopped and the oceans ceased moving. Its as if everything exists in a state that is imminent, a state that is permanently impending, and where something is about to occur, and suggests something slightly in the immediate future, or as if anticipating a future that never arrives. Meaning seems to have disappeared and the only constant appears in the meaninglessness, or perhaps in a meaning that exists just outside of the frame of the image. The drawings and paintings in(between) Heaven and Earth, all perfectly rendered aesthetically in both their representation and in their abstraction, allude to something greater than the stillness of  the subject of the images of suspended motion, as they imply something far greater and more powerful than the materiality or even the energy inherent in the objects themselves, towards a power or a belief system that is in itself more immanent. The works collectively suggest an energy that appears more omnipresent, where what is unknowable outside the frame, is both immanent and transcendant. In (between) Heaven and Earth asks us to look beyond ourselves, outside both our mortal and material existence into a profoundly spiritual state of being, and a higher consciousness that has the capacity to question the very notion of existence itself, as well as what we mean by the terms heaven and earth. 

Curated by
Nicholas Tsoutas