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Date(s) - 06/09/2025 - 07/12/2025
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
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Suzhou bay art museum
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Pixel Jungle
EXHIBITION TIME
September 6th | December 7th ● 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Exhibition Title: “Pixel Jungle” Themed Art Exhibition
Organizer: Suzhou Bay Art Museum
Undertaker: Suzhou Jinweiting Culture and Art Development Co., Ltd.
Duration: September 6th – December 7th, 2025
Address: Suzhou Bay Art Museum
Artists: Che Junbiao, Cheng Pan Huili
Delta NA: He Haoran, Lili, Li Jiaxin, Li Ming, Lin Yongzong, Lü Xiangyi, Ouyang Yao, Pan Yucheng, Pan Sitong, Riccardo Matlakas
Wang Beibei, Wang Hanwen, Wu Zhongxian, Zhao Zhuang
Curator: Li Tong (Veronica)
SUZHOU BAY ART MUSEUM: Enjoying Art in Life / Learning to Live Through Art
Foreword to the Exhibition Preface “I went to the woods because I wished to live meaningfully, to live deeply, to absorb all that is marrow in life, to crush all that is not life, lest, when I came to the end, I should discover that I had never lived.” — Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“There is no natural beauty, more precisely, it is only through artistic thinking that nature becomes beautiful in our eyes, which means every landscape is the result of ‘artification.’” — Henry David Thoreau, The Philosophy of the Garden ‘artisticization.’” — Bernd Belzer, “Philosophy in the Garden”
These two declarations, transcending time and space, seem contradictory, yet they both strike a chord with this fractured yet intertwined era. As “nature” and “digital” intertwine and grow with lightning speed, filters reconstruct Jiangnan gardens, and genetic code replaces the growth rings of ancient trees. We must ask: Will “authenticity” still exist in the future? And can “artification” become a key mediating medium, adapting to technological iterations while safeguarding the integrity of the sensory world? Two manifestos across time and space, seemingly contradictory, yet together they strike at the heart of our current, era—one of fragmentation and integration. As “nature” and “digital” intertwine and grow with lightning speed, filters reconstruct Jiangnan gardens, and genetic coding replaces the annual rings of ancient trees. We cannot help but ask: Will the “authenticity” of the future continue to endure? And can “artisticization” serve as a crucial mediating force, safeguarding the integrity of the sensory world while safeguarding adapting totechnological evolution?
This exhibition brings together 17 artists, who using their respective life trajectories as prisms, dissect the symbiotic map of nature and the digital. Pixel Jungle is not merely an exhibition title, but a cognitive framework: “pixel” symbolizes the ordered will of technology, while “jungle” represents the wild, organic life force. As life becomes fully pixelated and the jungle is reduced to an algorithmic testing ground, art must pierce through the romanticized facade of technology. Amidst the chaos of deterritorialization, it redraws the coordinates of biopolitics, allowing roots to breathe in the soil of data and enabling code to grow new dawns within annual rings.
Text / Li Tong, Curator
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