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Arario Gallery Beijing is honored to present this year’s first major group exhibition, Almost Tangible. This exhibition gathers 10 engaging international artists to present their artworks in various artistic mediums such as, oil painting, sculpture, installation, video and photography, in an attempt to reveal the common differences on experiential perspectives, creative mode and artistic language between artists in the East and West under the global context. European Artists’ artworks, a part of exhibiting artworks are selected from the ARARIO COLLECTION of Korea that will be showcased for the first time outside of Europe.

Almost Tangible attempts to explore the encounter of the "subject" and the "other" and the inbetween of the "Reality" and the "Surreality". According to the philosopher of deconstruction, Jacques Derrida, tangibility (Touch) is not a reality but a potential of life that does not exist unless it encounters with the other. Tangibility (Touch) is more fundamental than visuality, in other words, hearing, sight, taste and other senses can be restored to touch. Then, how do we allow our bodies to depart from the existing rules of contact with others among all in situ tangible contacts in order to increase the possibility (unknown) and significance with the outside world? Hereby, artistic writing and appreciation perhaps need to return to a “tangible(Touch)” mode, that emphasize senses, and its exploration on the unknown, invisible, untouchable and the enigmatic. This exhibition presented by Arario Gallery aims to guide the audience to capture traces of our senses, by using the tangible and contacts to replace our accurate intelligence and visual perception, so we would open up and break boundaries in order to take command of the ever changing tendency of the future.

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