| Beyond the northland
古代行将结束时，北方的陆地和海洋仍然笼罩在未知的迷雾中。许多迹象指向与北方的持续交流，含糊的信息不时抵达富于学识的社会。偶尔云团稍稍散开，我们惊鸿一瞥，看到几个伟大国家、一个全新的北方世界，但它们随即再次隐没，梦中仙境般的美景倏然消逝。
——埃莉诺 · 罗莎蒙德 · 巴勒克拉夫，英国
MUCHART观盛艺术携手却道画廊（巴黎）于2020.11.20——2020.12.31特别呈现“北方以北”限定展览。
From 20 November to 31 December 2020, MuchART Projects, in collaboration with Que Dao Gallery (Paris), presented the exhibition North of the North.
值得一提的是，此次特别选择了IUNII新五感体验馆呈现，区别于以往传统的艺术空间或美术馆，相信进入此空间的人们都会有一次全新的关于“美”的旅程。
The exhibition was notably presented at the IUNII New Sensory Experience Space. In contrast to conventional gallery or museum contexts, the setting proposed a renewed encounter with aesthetic experience.
人类对于未知角落的想象，总是充满异象和神秘的力量。极度险恶之地伴随着别样，超自然乃至非人的生灵。即便是试图探索苍茫之地的先驱与勇者，也不可避免地陷入困顿带来的幻觉与臆想。
对于形的感知是人类初期探索未知世界的基础和判断。我们最初感受到北方大陆的形是荒原，寒冷，冰面，还是无尽的海洋？在探索未知的北方大陆之前，所有的认知都来自在知识和经验以外的想象空间里对碎片的拼凑。
本次展览呈现三位年轻艺术家在其各自的北方探寻旅程中，对于现实地理与想象地理的融合，这些融合虚化了世界的物理边界。
Human imaginings of unknown territories are often shaped by strangeness and an aura of the mysterious. Extreme and inhospitable landscapes are frequently accompanied by imagined presences—supernatural, or even non-human forms of life. Even the pioneers and explorers who venture into these vast and uncertain regions are not immune to the disorientation, hallucination, and projection that arise from such conditions.
Perception of form constitutes one of the earliest frameworks through which humans approach and interpret the unknown. What, then, was the initial image of the northern territories—wilderness, cold, ice, or an endless sea? Prior to direct encounter, such knowledge is assembled through fragments, extrapolated within a space beyond experience and empirical understanding.
This exhibition brings together the practices of three emerging artists, each engaging with their own “northern” journeys. Their works negotiate the intersection between physical geography and imagined landscapes, dissolving the fixed boundaries of the world as it is conventionally understood.