The Quarantine Residency was an online, virtual residency program that ran throughout 2020, during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. It brought together 30 artists from 24 countries and six continents, and culminated in the online exhibition ‘Another Time’, hosted in virtual reality.

Exhibition Statement:

Another Time is an exhibition of artwork made during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic while in quarantine. The show features 30 artists from 24 countries and 6 continents. All artists exhibited here are part of the 'Quarantine Residency' project; an experimental online artist residency program where artists and curators from across the world are able to meet virtually, discuss one another's work and collaborate.

The artists selected for the project were done so for the quality of their work, but also for their story, background and the nature of their quarantine experience. These criteria has meant that in this exhibition there are artists who have exhibited at the highest level - in the Venice Biennale and elsewhere - alongside emerging and self-taught artists for whom this exhibition will be their first international exposure.

The artists here are of course connected by the strangeness of this moment in history, which may in fact be the closest thing we have had to a globally shared experience. It is because of this strangeness that many might feel we are living through 'another time, and that is itself reflected in much of the work here. Other artworks indicate a different experience of time itself: of time either accelerated or slowed down, or of time de-ferred, with many aspects of life delayed until an unknown later date. Some artworks may have been made while in waiting for things to 'return to normal', while others may help us question if indeed they could, or should, return to what 'normal' once was. This may be the moment in which everything changes irrevocably, or it may eventually pass and be half-forgotten. Whether the current moment is just a time in history like any other, or heralds another time entirely, is what remains to be seen.

Either/Or - Those Remote Days

Group Exhibition Shanghai

12/09/2021 - 1/24/2022

‘Either/Or - Those Remote Days’ was an offline exhibition based on the Quarantine Residency project. It brought together the original artists from the virtual project with artists working in Shanghai.

The exhibition ran at the Suning Museum from the 9th December 2021 until 24th Jan 2022.

Curated by Celyn Bricker, Evelyn Wang and Lulu Wang.

Participating artists:

Gilles Jobin, Hu Jieming, Rong Shaojia, Herbert Egger, Christine Bauer, Pedro De Sousa Pereira, Zhu Yu, Bai Shan, Hao Fangyuan, Shen Zhi, Sarah Song, Pi Kai, Zou Jingbo, Wei Fei, Asep Saepuloh, Tyler Hallett, Kristen Gianaris, Danielle Kuechler Flores, Roberto Uribe Castro, Carlos Sebastia, Olga Zaremba, Caron Greenblatt, Dillon Marsh, Steve Pettengell, Aya Nabih, Mahnoor Nasir Khan, Cheol yu Kim, Hussein Juma, Doina Vieru, Elham Angell, Mumtaz Khan Chopan, Anette Friedrich Johannessen, Paul Zisiwe, Celyn Bricker, Eric Souther

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