2014.08.29

On August 23, 2014, the second part of Times Heterotopias Trilogy “You Can Only Think about Something if You Think of Something Else” exhibition grandly convened at Times Museum. Artist Barbara Davi, Hu Yun, Li Jinghu, Li Liao, Ariel Schlesinger, and He Jianxiang, Yu Ji, Zhang Xinjun, Zhao Liang with O-office Architects attended the opening ceremony. The guests present included Consul General of Switzerland in Guangzhou Fu Zhidong, Mexican cultural official in Guangzhou Romina, deputy curator of UCCA You Yang, Grandview Art Museum executive curator Han Fei, Times Museum executive curator Zhao Ju and many media friends.

The exhibition curator Cai Yingqian remarked that many works in the exhibition were inspired by the status quo of the communities around Times Museum and aimed at exploring the relationship between life and art and showing the public the role played by Times Museum in the public literature and art. As a window of art, Times Museum has been devoted to exploring the potential contact and exchange area between contemporary art and the public and offering a communication platform for the public and artists.

The exhibition attracted art lovers from around the world, and there were great numbers of foreign art lovers attracted by the exhibition. Distinct from the traditional forms of exhibition, the works were inspired by artists’ life experience, many of which were experiences of behavior with the audience becoming part of the works.

As the second chapter of “Time Heterotopias Trilogy”, “You Can Only Think about Something if You Think of Something Else” attempted to draw a synchronic reality and future by taking Times Museum’s own buildings and the status of communities as the foothold of thinking. Through exhibition presentation, the public imagination and discourse production, the exhibition explored a series of basic questions in contemporary art and institutional practice, including “What is art museum?” “How should we perceive art?” “What is the significance of seeing exhibitions?”