My initial idea is to create an exhibition environment where the viewer becomes one with the artwork and has no boundaries, allowing the viewer to immerse themselves in the narrative and feel their own presence, understanding the work from a personal perspective and triggering emotional resonance. Transforming the exhibition space into a storytelling and sensory-rich place, it explores the multiple connections between people and space, people and emotions, and people and their bodies.
I was inspired by Chiharu Shioda’s Trembling Souls, an exhibition that creates visual and psychological immersion through wire-weaving installations. The works incorporate personal memories and universal emotions, and the viewer is placed in an ‘emotional network’, where people are transported to another environment to experience the exhibition in an immersive way, to understand the story from their own point of view, which triggers emotional resonance.
Juhani Pallasmaa’s book, The Eyes of the Skin, critiques modern architectural creations that focus on the visual to the exclusion of the other senses, drawing out the importance of the sense of touch to people’s experience and perception of architecture, and then calling on people to let themselves be the subjects of their own experience of the world instead of being the spectators who are not part of it. ‘detached from the body of the spectator’. ‘In image culture, the gaze itself is flattened into a picture, thus losing its plasticity.’ By criticising the idea of ‘vision-centred’, the author introduces the idea of ‘body-centred’, and argues the point through the different experiences of multiple bodily senses, such as sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell, and so on.
I hope that the viewers can touch and move certain installations to influence the dynamics of the artworks. The artworks have no clear boundaries, while creating a sense of immersion by combining sound, light, shadow and smell through multi-sensory design. The plan is how to apply experimental curatorial forms to future projects and explore more possibilities of interaction with the audience.
References：
https://www.teamlab.art/zh-hans/e/asianart/
Pallasmaa, Juhani. 1996. The Eyes of the Skin. Chichester Wiley.
Chiharu Shioda, ‘Matsukaze’ © 2025 by Chuni Mao is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 
Chiharu Shioda’s ‘Trembling Soul’ in Shenzhen © 2025 by Chuni Mao is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
Chiharu Shioda, The Uncertain Journey © 2025 by Chuni Mao is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
Chiharu Shioda © 2025 by Chuni Mao is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
