ALL WALKING BETWEEN NORMS AND MEMORY

Bodies as Generative Spatial Agents

Curated by Ruoru Wang

Sol de Paris
17 rue Chapon, 75003 Paris, France
8–14 December

All Walking Between Norms and Memory explores the body not as a passive subject, but as an active spatial agent—one that generates meaning through movement, sensation, data, and lived experience. Situated between social norms and embodied memory, the exhibition brings together moving image, installation, and digital practices to examine how bodies absorb, negotiate, and reconfigure the forces that shape them.

Across intimate biological rhythms, disciplined gestures, fractured identities, geopolitical temperatures, and invisible data flows, the participating artists approach the body as a site of transmission—where private sensations intersect with cultural, technological, and political structures. Rather than presenting the body as a fixed or stable entity, the works reveal it as fluid, porous, and continuously rewritten.

The exhibition foregrounds states of tension: between healing and rupture, discipline and resistance, visibility and surveillance, intimacy and global instability. Here, bodies do not merely occupy space; they actively produce it—through pulse, strain, frequency, breath, and movement. Memory is not confined to the past, but emerges as something enacted in the present, inscribed through repetition, fragmentation, and affect.

By positioning the body as a generative spatial agent, All Walking Between Norms and Memory invites viewers to reconsider how personal experience, social regulation, and technological systems converge within the physical self. The exhibition proposes the body as both archive and threshold—a living terrain where norms are internalized, resisted, and transformed.

Artists

Aziz Niyazov
Evgeniya Makarshina
Ke Qin
Qishan Li
Rafael Triana
Yaxuan Liao