Flow
Flow
Ongoing
In a world of perpetual flux, there exists no constant state—only an eternal variation.
The flow of water, dependent on the instantaneous convergence of countless conditions, manifests in irreplicable forms, only to dissolve as those conditions disperse. Photography, functioning as an "interception mechanism," employs mechanical means to resist this vanishing flow. Yet what we perceive through mediated filtration is never the flow itself, but rather its fragmented shadow.
This body of work deliberately obscures water's physical environment—its containers, terrain, and hidden forces—while absenting the developmental trajectory of forms before (genesis) and after (extinction) their momentary manifestation. Such absence mirrors the boundaries of human cognition, constrained by invisible "fields" much like how to understand that "River" is only a temporary name for the flow process—or comprehending "waterflow" as a flow of consciousness.
Non-intervention forms the critical methodology of creation. To truly coexist with the flux, one must surrender control and immerse in the present of flow. Impermanence is not void; true eternity resides not in resisting change, but in becoming change itself.
—We cannot transform moments into eternity, for eternity is but the continuum of moments.
Zhong Qi, 2025
Exhibition
Le Salon D'Automne Paris 121è Édition 2024
Flow 23.10.21 (Fluide Nº17)
22-27 October 2024, Pavillons éphémères avenue des Champs-Élysées Place Clemenceau, Pairs, France
