Chrono Eclipse: The Light Between is an immersive solo exhibition by Korean artist Ligyung, featuring a single site-specific installation. The exhibition delves into the duality of time, exploring moments where creation and extinction, memory and oblivion intersect. Driven by the fundamental question, "How deep runs the shadow in every light?", the artist expands into an investigation of temporality in this exhibition.
The exhibition title, "Chrono Eclipse," aptly encapsulates this exploration. It evokes the celestial phenomenon of an eclipse, where the sun is momentarily obscured, highlighting the fleeting nature of light and the cyclical patterns of time. As the exhibition reveals, time is not a linear progression, but rather a complex interplay of cycles, rhythms, and unexpected shifts, much like the ebb and flow of an eclipse itself. The artist thereby invites viewers to experience a visual symphony of light and material transformation—a convergence of natural elements and ephemeral states where the linearity and continuity of time dissolve.
Using Xiaonan wood incense powder and architectural interventions, the artist opens a sensory dialogue between permanence and impermanence. In the two gallery spaces, there are conceptual “towers” with inscriptions lying on the floor, symbolizing completeness and fragmentation respectively. As the exhibition progresses, the inscriptions written in Xiaonan incense powder on the towers undergo gradual changes and transformations due to audience interaction, visually embodying the passage of time and its cyclical traces. The artist's approach to art as "a struggle to transform matter into spirit" is realized through the meticulous installation utilizing natural light and architectural space. Unfolding in the historically layered space of MoCA TAIPEI, this exhibition offers a meditation on the nature of time, memory, and impermanence, through philosophical contemplation and sensory experience.
By seamlessly blending artistic expression with philosophical inquiry, Chrono Eclipse: The Light Between brings a profound and thought-provoking experience which invites audiences to contemplate the passage and the perception of time. This exploration prompts viewers to question their own relationship with time, to consider the impermanence of all things, and ultimately, to grapple with the profound questions of the nature of reality itself.