Unfinished Trajectories

+wo Cultural Practice will present 'Unfinished Trajectories' from May 26 to July 4, 2026, a joint exhibition by British artists Daniel Staincliffe and Leo Bayly Barton. Through installation, interactive media, and virtual narrative, the exhibition explores how time cycles, stacks, and continuously generates between the material and the digital. Focusing on different states of 'traces' and 'memory,' it invites the audience to reconsider their relationship with the world through participation and perception.
Daniel Staincliffe's work has long focused on the dialectic between 'traces' and 'intention.' From the perspective of an outsider observer, he collects and reassembles the subtle traces often overlooked in Taiwan's daily life, transforming found objects, spatial installations, and behavioral traces to reawaken people's perception of the environment. Those seemingly mundane objects and remnants become fragments solidified by time in his works, making the past not just memory but a material state that continuously exists in the present.
Compared to Daniel Staincliffe's gaze on material traces, Leo Bayly Barton approaches from new media and interactive narrative, viewing digital archives as part of contemporary cultural heritage. Through game mechanics, virtual scenes, and interactive imagery, he guides viewers to navigate between reality and the digital, re-experiencing the complex relationships between control, contradiction, and geopolitics in the process of operation and viewing. The paths and images existing in the virtual world are like prophecies of the future and projections of contemporary collective memory, re-anchoring people's perception of history and culture and contemplating how technology shapes future human emotional experiences.
The creations of the two artists form a recursive relationship about time: Staincliffe seeks eternity in material traces, Barton stores memory in digital illusions. Both use light, slightly humorous methods as mediums, guiding the audience to feel the deep questions about time, memory, and existence behind the works within the loop of interaction and participation. 'Unfinished Trajectories' is a reflection on how the past, present, and future intertwine.