Tidal Conversations
Artistic encounters across Europe and Asia
2025
Paris, France
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A collaborative platform connecting artistic research, cultural dialogue and public encounters across different geographical and cultural contexts.
Statement
Tidal Conversations explores how artistic practices can become spaces of encounter between different places, histories and ways of understanding the world.
Bringing together artists, researchers, institutions and communities, the project considers cultural exchange not as a one-way transfer but as an ongoing process of listening, negotiation and shared production.
How can an artistic encounter create new ways of understanding between different cultural contexts?
Tidal Conversations: Exhibition and Public Programme
Event Type
Exhibition
Event Date
10 September - 16 September 2026
Event venue
Contemporary Arts Centre
Event Organiser
FUQIAO
CITY
Paris, France
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The exhibition brings together artistic research, moving-image works, installations and participatory practices that examine how ideas, people and cultural memories move between places.
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Event Profile
The programme brings together artists and cultural practitioners working across different geographical contexts. It creates a platform for artistic exchange while connecting exhibition-making with research, conversation and public participation.
Why This Event Matters
The project provides an opportunity to connect artistic practices from Europe and Asia while creating new forms of dialogue between artists, curators, institutions and local audiences.
Creating Connection, Enabling New Perspective
FUQIAO approaches Tidal Conversations as a space for sustained exchange rather than a conventional exhibition presentation.
The project connects artistic research with dialogue, production and mediation. Artists are invited to bring their individual practices into conversation with different geographical and cultural contexts, allowing new relationships and interpretations to emerge.
The curatorial framework remains open to multiple perspectives and encourages collaboration between artists, institutions, researchers and audiences.
Project Context / Opportunity
Increasing cultural exchange between Europe and Asia creates opportunities for artists and institutions to develop relationships beyond traditional exhibition formats.
Tidal Conversations responds to this opportunity by creating a framework where artistic research, public engagement and institutional collaboration can develop together.
Project Objectives
The project aims to:
• Connect artists and cultural practitioners across Europe and Asia.
• Develop new forms of intercultural dialogue.
• Create opportunities for artistic research and collaboration.
• Connect exhibition-making with public mediation.
• Encourage long-term relationships between artists and institutions.
• Explore new possibilities for future commissions, research and touring.
Event Central Curatorial Question
How can cultural and artistic encounters move beyond representation towards genuine exchange and shared production?
FUQIAO Role
Curator, Representative, Producer
FUQIAO Methodology
FUQIAO combines research, dialogue, production and mediation to develop projects that respond to specific cultural and geographical contexts.
For Tidal Conversations, FUQIAO facilitates connections between artists, curators, institutions and audiences. The project develops through conversations and research before moving into exhibition production and public engagement.
Strategic Connection
This approach allows the project to remain responsive to the needs and perspectives of its participants.
Intercultural Dimension
Target Audiences
The project creates a dialogue between European and Asian perspectives, recognising that cultural exchange involves differences in histories, languages, institutions and artistic practices.
Rather than presenting these differences as fixed categories, the project uses conversation and collaboration to explore how new shared perspectives can emerge.
Artists, Communities
Expected Outcomes
Exhibition
Public programme
Artistic research
New collaborations
Publication
Future touring opportunities
Current Needs
FUQIAO is interested in connecting with institutions, venues, cultural partners and funders interested in supporting the development, presentation and future touring of the project.
featured Artists
Archival Inkjet Print
Len Yui
A study in balance and transformation, this sculpture captures the fluidity of form and the passage of time.
A serene landscape that reflects the delicate relationship between nature, time and memory.
Between Tides, 2021
Len gyud
A serene ls the delicate relationship between nature, time and memory.
A study in balance and trre captures the fluidity of form and the passage of time.
featured Artwork
Echoes of Silence
Year
2026
Medium
Acrylic on canvas
Dimension
120 × 100 cm
Routes of Memory explores how memories are transformed when people move between geographical and cultural contexts. Archival images and contemporary recordings are brought together to create a layered portrait of movement and remembrance.
a heaven where fairy is flying
© Lin Wei. Courtesy of the artist.
Transient Form
Year
2023
Medium
Marble
Dimension
45 × 30 × 28 cm
A study in balance and transformation, this sculpture captures the fluidity of form and the passage of time.