“Being Nearby” is an exhibition that brings together social welfare practices and contemporary art creation, presenting them side by side. It gathers issues of shared concern from both fields, aiming to create a space for dialogue—one where practitioners from each side can recognize and encounter one another, becoming each other’s “nearby.”
The exhibition invites audiences to follow ten groups of artists and nine social welfare organizations into familiar neighborhoods, to gently clarify the once-blurred faces of our neighbors in our minds; to step into the natural outskirts that often serve merely as a backdrop for leisure, and to observe the growth and unrestrained habits of plants and animals; to listen to the roosters crowing and dogs barking in the countryside, the rumble of factory machinery, and the varied encounters of people from different professions, environments, and ages.
No matter the distance, every person and every form of life is part of our “nearby”—and we, too, are within it.
Participating Artists: Cao Minghao & Chen Jianjun, Ding Ding, He Junyan, Huang Po-chih, Ji Yinan, Lo Lai Lai Natalie, Li Liao, Door Crack Art Group, Ergao Dance Production Group, The Social Sensibility R&D Department.
Participating Organizations: Guangdong Harmony Community Foundation, Mangrove Conservation Foundation, Guangxi Biodiversity Research and Conservation Association, Qing-dao Marine Conservative Society, Inno Community Development Organisation, Yunnan Heart to Heart Community Care Social Work Centre, Hunan Wispring Education Development Foundation, Beijing Shifangyuan Foundation, You & Me Sexuality Education Support Centre.
Producer: Liu Xiaodu
Exhibition Advisor: Hu Fei
Curator: Zhu Yanan
Curatorial Assistant: Li Ruohong
Orgnizer: Beijing Xianfeng Changtian Foundation
Co-organizer: Pingshan Art Museum
Guiding Organizations: Pingshan District Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports, Shenzhen Charity Federation
