"In a Time neither Memory nor the Present" - Wang Chung-p'ing Solo Exhibition

Carp Gallery is delighted to share with everyone the solo exhibition "In a Time neither Memory nor the Present" by Wang Chung-p'ing (王仲平), opening on 5/9 (Sat) ✨
"It has been over ten years since I consciously started picking up a camera to take photos. During this period, I have accumulated a large number of photos. Most of these photos are scattered, fragmented, without any particular meaning or content. They lie scattered and piled up in my hard drive, like specks of dust in a cloud of dust, from different times and different places, but eventually, as time passes, they all settle in the same place.
Seeing a moment from the past through a photo seems like a very natural thing, but what state of mind and motivation did I have when I took these photos back then? I can't quite recall now. I can only look at these photos while trying to reconstruct that once-existent time in my mind.
I happened to read a poem by Shuntaro Tanikawa, and the first line left a deep impression on me: 'In a time neither memory nor the present, looking at a postcard.' I thought, isn't this exactly how I feel when looking at these photos? So I began to ponder: if a photo is about the past, and the past is a certain once-present moment, then when I look at a photo that cannot be recalled nor easily identified, how should I understand the experience of viewing this photo? And how can I see, from such a photo, that time which cannot be recalled nor reached?"