展言：
“白立方” White Cube，这种空白、宽敞、无装饰、带有点宗教感的“零空间”，改变了当下艺术被观赏的方式。 20世纪早期，白立方的出现，意在构建一种崭新的“画框”。它重新诠释作品的“边界”，是深受现代主义钟爱的一种空间形式。 1976年，Brian O'Doherty在《Inside the White Cube》文章里提出警示，大致的意思是，白立方的特殊作品展示形式，注定让里头的艺术品变得“神圣”而不可侵犯，这将影响我们对于艺术的“阅读”。

如今身边许多的展览，感觉也的确如此。貌似一个艺术空间要先有了某种空间形式上的“艺术感”后，艺术的事情才方可开始。 当下，大部分的艺术展览自动默认自己需要一个白立方的设定。这种现象，究竟是为了追求作品更好的呈现，还是为了在观众面前，竖立艺术的话语权? 

Embracing Change《在有画的房间》群展，是一次大胆、但又简单直接的尝试。Champochic决定将这次参展的作品，全部放入一个微缩的展馆模型里。它是一个由我们团队里小伙伴M在2天内采购物料、手工制作而成的“展馆”。我们依照往常的策展与布展逻辑和过程将作品一一呈现于这个模拟的展馆中。最后我们也进行了一些“拍摄工作”，来记录本次的艺术成果。最终，我们达成了一次“做展”的全部流程与体验。  

Champochic这次带来的群展，围绕着“植物”与“拥抱变化”这两个主题词。在前期的邀请创作中，我们只提供了主题词，并没有提前透露作品的展陈方案，同时直接邀请艺术家们提供给了展品的电子文件，方便准备工作。所有这次展览的作品，在现场都可以通过二维码，观览到存放于线上的高清作品图片。用手机观看作品，荧幕的像素比打印出来的像素会高出许多。 

“神圣”的白立方，在被我们剥去了它应有的多个“特征”之后——这个迷你的，甚至只是用纸板搭建出来的展馆“平替”，它是否依旧是展示艺术创作的最佳“选择”呢？

在这么一手模糊虚实的“小把戏”之后，观众将会如何看待这次展览与作品？ 他们会讨论吗？会质疑吗？会有收获吗？

The “White Cube” – a special kind of blank, spacious, non-decorative “zero-space”.  Underneath its distinct style and structure, there is an undeniably quasi-religious ambiance. The white cube fundamentally altered the way in which contemporary art is perceived by the audience. Today, contemporary art is exhibited in every imaginable space possible. Yet, among most curators and exhibition organizers，a strong preference for the white cube remains largely intact, it is like the best choice for “serious” art exhibitions. 

Early in the 20th century, the emergence of the white cube redefined the boundaries of contemporary art pieces, and became a concept heavily embraced by modernists. The clean white walls, bright lights, and wide distances between the pieces, these attributes of the white cube prompted the audience to focus in on the mood of brush strokes, the texture of the paintings and from this, formed a specific and different visual experience. In 1976, Brian O’Doherty warned against the popular use of the white cube, arguing that art inside such spaces made them sacred, thus affecting the reading of the art itself.

Today, many exhibitions around us seem to reflect this statement. Art spaces often have to demonstrate the “artistic credibility” of its physical venue, before any real art can begin inside.   Indeed, most art exhibitions today automatically embrace the white cube. Is it the pursuit of art display itself? Or rather an act of establishing discourse power – “the right to speak” with the art audience.  

The 《Embracing Change》group exhibition takes on a bold but straight-forward attempt to challenge some assumptions surrounding the white cube concept. For this exhibition, all the selected artworks are exhibited in four pseudo miniature “art cubes”. The pseudo is built by a Champochic team member over the course of 2 days. Now the pseudo art cubes sit on a table in the Champochic art shop. We followed the standard curating steps and process, gradually setting up each art piece into the space. Towards the end, we also conducted photographic documentations of the event. 

All in all, we completed the typical process and overall experience of “setting up” an art exhibition.  “Plants” and “Embracing Change” were the two key words chosen for this exhibition. In the post-pandemic era, we wanted to create a group exhibition that celebrated the adaptive and enduring nature of plant life, and in this spirit, encourage people to openly confront limitations and embrace the changes to come.Using those two key words, we invited artists and creators to create and submit their works accordingly, without telling them ahead of time, how their work will be exhibited. However, we did request electronic versions of their work to help facilitateother aspects of our exhibition.  During this exhibition, the audience can scan QR codes to access and view HD pictures of the artwork. Such pictures as shown on the mobile screen will display higher pixels than if printed out.

As we remove certain characteristics of the “sacred” white cube from our model, will this miniature pseudo art space made of white cardboard, still represent a credible substitute for the real thing? 

After this cheeky little alteration that blurs the boundaries between reality and concept, how will the audience react to the exhibition and the art pieces now? Happy Viewing!