At the onset of the new year, Beijing space launches its inaugural group exhibition, The Busy Ritual Begins Bringing together over twenty recent works by ten artists—including Bao Rui, Cao Gen, Cui Zhipeng, Li Guanshuai, Liang Teng, Shan Yuhan, Wang Jing, Wu Linghao, Zhang Jialei, and Zhao Yu—the exhibition showcases the creative states of artists navigating the interplay between lived reality, inner order, and personal perception.
When creation repeats incessantly yet meaning remains suspended, The Busy Ritual Begins does not refer to some grand commencement, but rather to a state that has long been underway and cannot cease. The works of the ten artists do not converge toward a unified form or conclusion; instead, each unfolds along their own trajectory: some embed the individual into constructed realities, provoking conflict between instinct and discipline; others generate fleeting orders and chaos through layers of space and vision; still others preserve ephemeral moments by stretching and contracting time. Emerging from distinct contexts and approaches, these works converge here and now, weaving together multiple paths for observing and comprehending contemporary art practice. In the mutual gaze between these pieces, creation is no longer understood as a singular completion, but more as an action perpetually set into motion.
In this exhibition, busyness does not point toward efficiency or outcome, but rather circles back as a labor of the spirit; the ceremony is not a preordained order, but a perception sustained through repetition and revision. Reality and imagination, divinity and humanity, draw nearer within the unfolding visual experience, while body, memory, and belief are reshaped. Art, in this state, invites the viewer into its unfinished condition—into watching and lingering—to join the works within this continuously unfolding ceremony.
