Inorganic Poetics

Preface
Technics, mythologies, landscapes, or protocols—these heterogeneous vectors do not unfold as parallel historical trajectories. Instead, they interweave and entangle within a singular field of reality, functioning as mutual kinetic forces. Following Bruno Latour’s Actor-Network Theory, agency is no longer the exclusive domain of the human subject. Infrastructure, mineral strata, urban hydrospheres, technological acoustics, and mythic imaginaries, among other divergent formations, constitute an assemblage of seemingly silent non-human agents that exert active force within relational networks. Far from being neutral backdrops or inert containers, they are vital participants in the restless processes of linkage, differentiation, and feedback through which reality itself is folded.
The works gathered in this exhibition intervene precisely within this relational tension. Through the drone-eye gaze upon infrastructural ruins, trans-geopolitical sensory dislocations, the archival tracing of terrestrial and aquatic flux, and corporeal interventions within familial memory and industrial soundscapes, human agency and non-human forces are woven into a structure that resists stabilization. What we propose as "Inorganic Poetics" does not invoke a romanticized naturalism; rather, it seeks a mode of attunement to the "process of emergence."
In this context, the object-landscape functions as an interface for circulating forces, memory and power sediment into one another, and history remains in a state of continuous revision through its friction with the contemporary. "Inorganic Poetics" is not a conclusion, but a posture held in tension with the present. It invites the viewer to linger within the interstices where latent forces intersect with human action—within a yet-to-be-fully-named middle ground, to recalibrate our perception of the very conditions under which the present takes form.
Text by Zhichao Zhu
Schedule of Events
Exhibition Dates: 06 – 10 May 2026
Venue: MOM ART SPACE (Valentinskamp 34A)
Opening Reception: 05 May, 19:00
Opening Hours: 14:00-20:00
Live Cinema Performance:
08 May, 18:00, BLUE SUN (25–30 min)

Curator: Zhichao Zhu
Curatorial Team: Zhiwen Ding, Yao Su
Participating Artists
Qian Han / Yujue Liang / Rhett Tsai / Mia Yu / Yen Wang
Yun / Wuji Ye / Tianming Zhou
Academic Support
Dagmar Rauwald, Dr. Stefanie Thiedig
Panel Talk: Art talk with Dr. Stefanie Thiedig, Dagmar Rauwald, Mia Yu, Qian Han, Zhichao Zhu and Online guests via zoom
Date: 05 May, 15:00 – 17:30
Venue: Seminarraum, Valentinskamp 34A
Free entrance
Invited by Dagmar Rauwald
Gefördert von der BKM Hamburg