This exhibition will showcase more than a hundred oil paintings by Belgian artist Alain Bornain. Born in 1965, he is a celebrated artist from Charleroi, Belgium. His painting practice spans multiple disciplines, integrating images and language, with a primary focus on the disappearance and existence of temporality and memory. His works bear the weight of memory, interweaving traces of the past, photographic fragments, texts, and life imagery on the canvas. The theme of this exhibition is “Perspective”, which ushers us into an artistic realm full of contemplation and reflection.
In this exhibition, “Perspective” by no means merely denotes visual perspective; rather, it represents Alain Bornain's distinctive interpretation of time and memory. By means of the contrast between black and white and colors, he endeavors to probe into the relationship between the past and the present, along with the distortion and transformation of memory over the passage of time. The colorful circular patterns within the works serve not only as visual foci but also symbolize the instants in life: the ephemeral moments and the suspended moments. “Perspective” is a voyage of contemplation that transcends the visual realm, constituting a philosophical exploration of time, memory, and existence.