OOO

Chen Li, He Mingkai, Kong Kong, Dasy Li,

Liu Fujie, Lou Nengbin, Pan Caoyuan, Qin Jun

2025.3.1 - 4.20

BBROWNIE Project is pleased to announce the presentation of group exhibition, 「OOO」. As a proper noun, "OOO" has gained widespread consensus in just over a decade. However, each word in "Object-Oriented Ontology" can be translated differently in the Chinese context. Even by consulting multiple Chinese translations of the works of Graham Harman, the original creator of this concept, one finds no uniformity. Object, Entity, or Thing? Oriented or Directed? Ontology or Existentialism? Behind each of these terms lies a vast corpus of academic literature, leading to rich and diverse cognitive frameworks. This very predicament of translation actually corroborates one of the claims of OOO theory—that the existence of objects transcends human definitions. This exhibition brings together the diverse creations of eight artists: Chen Li, He Mingkai, Kong Kong, Dasy Li, Liu Fujie, Lou Nengbin, Pan Caoyuan, and Qin Jun. It attempts to address, through artistic practices that span media such as installation, video, sculpture, sound, and painting, how the anthropocentric cognitive framework fails on one hand, and on the other, how artists creatively use old media to establish new meanings.