The exhibition design stems from the idea of creating a 'spatial room,' referencing German artist Erich Buchholz’s painted Berlin studio in 1922. Buchholz was the first artist in Western art history to contextualise his abstraction paintings with their architectural setting.

Unlike Buchholz, the spatial room presented here is based on 'in-between' spatial moments, which are conceptual, physical, and experiential. The orange paintings in the exhibition (both watercolour and acrylic works) explore the similar colour effects of sunrise and sunset (East and West). Through visual confusion, these works suggest that the so-called sunrise and sunset, East and West are our subjective perceptions of time and space; we are constantly living in between these artificial notions.

The title of the black dot/mirror work is The Infinite Distance Between Two Points (No.10). By using a mirror to reflect the black dot on the opposing wall, the work presents a spatial moment that crosses between virtual and actual dimensions. The two-black-dot print is part of an edition of 25 — The Infinite Distance Between Two Points (No.9), inkjet on archival paper, 42 x 59.5 cm, 2022.

The title of the black watercolour work is Untitled (Study for line, form, inter-zone, night sky and other in-between moments (No.3)). This work intends to represent the in-between moment shared by various opposing notions such as up and down, form and line, abstraction and representation, or the darkness between sunset and sunrise.

Paul Bai, 2024