Different Worlds.
New Resonances.
FUQIAO brings together artists from different cultural, geographical and artistic backgrounds who reveal the possibility of a meaningful resonance in their work.
The platform does not seek to highlight superficial similarities between Europe and Asia. Instead, it creates conditions in which distinct artistic languages can encounter one another while retaining their singularity and opening a new field of perception.
Some dialogues begin with an intuition already shared by the artists. Others emerge through curatorial research, conversation and experimentation.
A dialogue does not require similarity. It begins when one artistic world enables another to be perceived differently.
Curating the Encounter
A dialogue does not begin with similarity. It begins when one artistic world enables another to be perceived differently.
FUQIAO
FUQIAO takes an artistic dialogue approach to curation.
The objective is not to pair a European artist with an Asian artist to highlight cultural differences. Nor is it to dissolve their differences within a predetermined theme.
FUQIAO begins with the unique characteristics of each artist’s practice.
Through research, conversation and sustained engagement with the works, the platform identifies the questions, tensions and sensibilities that may emerge between them, such as time, memory, matter, landscape, displacement, technology, perception, ritual, identity or transformation.
The resulting dialogue may take the form of an exhibition, commission, residency, performance, publication or experimental research programme.
Each encounter therefore develops its own curatorial language.
FUQIAO does not apply a fixed model to artists. Instead, it creates the form of encounter required by each project.
Cecilia Ho × Robert Cahen
Cecilia Ho and Robert Cahen have different artistic histories, cultural backgrounds and visual practices.
Cecilia Ho works with ink, photography, weaving and installation. Robert Cahen has developed a substantial body of work using video, sound and the transformation of the moving image.
Their collaboration was not based on any apparent similarities.
However, FUQIAO identified a deeper resonance between their approaches to time, memory, presence, disappearance, movement and transmission.
This resonance gave rise to The Porous Instant, a curatorial project in which their works engage with each other while retaining their autonomy.
FUQIAO does not apply a fixed model to artists. Instead, it creates the form of encounter required by each project.
Cecilia Ho
Cecilia Ho and Robert Cahen have contrasting artistic histories, cultural contexts and visual practices.
Cecilia Ho works through a variety of media, including ink, photography, weaving and installation. Robert Cahen is an artist who uses video, sound and moving image to explore themes of time and perception.
What connects them is not similarity, but resonance.
Robert Cahen
FUQIAO identified a significant overlap in their respective approaches to memory, presence, disappearance, movement and transmission.
This encounter led to the conception of The Porous Moment , a curatorial project in which the works are exhibited together without compromising their individuality.
We are pleased to present two distinct artistic worlds. This resonance could not be produced by either practice alone.
The In-Between
The concept of the ‘In-Between’ lies at the heart of the dialogue between Cecilia Ho and Robert Cahen.
This active space is where their works meet, affect one another and generate new interpretations.
However, the In-Between is not a formula that can be applied to every FUQIAO project.
Other encounters may require different curatorial structures:
- Correspondence.
- Counterpoint.
- Translation.
- Confrontation.
- Displacement.
- Transmission.
- Parallel narratives.
- Collective experimentation.
The role of FUQIAO is to discover the most appropriate form for each constellation of artists, works and contexts.
The In-Between was the language of one encounter. Future dialogues may invent others.
How a Dialogue Begins
FUQIAO can become involved at different stages of an artistic project.
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When artists already share an intuition
Two or more artists may already have identified a relationship between their practices and wish to transform it into an exhibition, commission, residency, or collaborative work.
FUQIAO assists in clarifying the curatorial proposition, structuring the project, identifying relevant institutions, and developing its international presentation.
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When an artist wishes to open their practice to another context
An artist may wish to work in resonance with a practice connected to the other continent without yet having identified the appropriate interlocutor.
FUQIAO is able to conduct curatorial research, suggest potential correspondences, and oversee the initial phases of the encounter.
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When the relationship has yet to be imagined
FUQIAO is able to identify two or more practices whose encounter could generate a significant artistic and cultural project.
The platform is responsible for developing the initial concept, bringing the artists together, and exploring with them the form that the dialogue might take.
CURATORIAL PRINCIPLES
What Makes a Resonance Meaningful?
FUQIAO does not select artists according to nationality alone, nor does it organise encounters simply because one artist is European and another Asian.
A dialogue must reveal a genuine artistic necessity.
Each artist must possess an autonomous and clearly developed practice.
The encounter must open a question that neither practice would express in the same way alone.
The relationship should transform the perception of every participating practice rather than place one in a secondary role.
The project must respect the complexity of its contexts and avoid reductive representations of Europe and Asia.
The initial resonance must be capable of becoming a concrete artistic, institutional, or research project.
FUQIAO is interested not in resemblance, but in the artistic potential of relation.
From Encounter to Project
Each dialogue develops according to the artists, the works, the context, and the institution involved.
Conversations and Publications
Dialogues extended through interviews, essays, artist books, films, or digital archives.
Exhibitions
Works brought into relation through a specific curatorial and spatial proposition.
New Commissions
Artists invited to create new works in response to a question, a place, or another practice.
Performances and Live Encounters
Temporary forms involving movement, sound, voice, image, or participation.
Research and Mediation
Projects involving researchers, translators, local communities, or experimental forms of public engagement.
Residencies
Periods of shared or parallel research connecting Europe and Asia.
Twin-Site Projects
Connected projects developed simultaneously in European and Asian institutions.
Resonances in Development
A curatorial dialogue around time, matter, memory, appearance, and transformation.
FUQIAO is developing new conversations between artistic practices connected to Europe and Asia.
These dialogues will be revealed as research, conversations, and institutional partnerships evolve.
A resonance should not be announced before it has been genuinely experienced.
Begin a Resonance
FUQIAO invites artists based in Europe and Asia to get in touch if they are interested in developing meaningful dialogue across these two continents.
You may already have:
- an artistic partner;
- a shared question;
- an initial collaborative work;
- an exhibition or residency concept;
- a desire to encounter another artistic practice without yet knowing which one.
FUQIAO is also willing to consider exploring unique practices that could form part of a future curatorial dialogue initiated by the platform.
Each proposal is evaluated based on the quality and maturity of the artistic work, the relevance of the intended relationship, and the potential for developing a distinctive project.
Submitting a proposal does not constitute an application for representation. FUQIAO considers projects according to its curatorial direction, current research, and development capacity.
Develop a Dialogue with FUQIAO
Museums, art centres, foundations, festivals, residencies, and research organisations may invite FUQIAO to conceive or develop an artistic dialogue connecting Europe and Asia.
The starting point may be:
- an artist already associated with the institution;
- a curatorial question;
- a collection;
- a territory;
- a cultural or social context;
- a desire to establish a partnership with another continent.
FUQIAO can identify artists, formulate the curatorial concept, structure the collaboration, and accompany the project through development, production, funding, and international presentation.
Where required, FUQIAO can also make its specialist partners available to support the logistical, technical, scenographic and audiovisual dimensions of a project.
These specialists work in close coordination with the teams appointed by the host institution, museum, exhibition organiser or production partner. Their role is not to replace the venue’s own expertise, but to contribute complementary knowledge and ensure that the technical implementation remains fully aligned with the curatorial and artistic intention.
- technical feasibility studies;
- audiovisual installation and integration;
- exhibition and equipment planning;
- scenographic coordination;
- transport, handling and installation requirements;
- coordination with local technicians and service providers;
- testing, commissioning and on-site technical assistance.
FUQIAO can therefore accompany a project from its curatorial conception through to its practical and technical implementation, while working collaboratively with the host organisation’s own specialists.
Begin a Resonance
Develop a Dialogue
Art Begins with
a Singular Voice.
Dialogue Opens
Another Space.
FUQIAO creates the conditions in which artists from different worlds can meet without reducing their differences.
Some encounters begin with a shared intuition. Others emerge slowly through research and conversation.
What matters is not that the artists resemble one another, but that their works make a new artistic territory possible.