We live within overlapping systems: biological systems, informational systems, cultural systems, cosmic systems. They interlock, feed back, and evolve, forming a structure that appears infinitely extensible. When we speak of “humanity”, “civilisation”, “technology”, or “the universe”, we are, in essence, discussing the self-organisation of systems and the boundaries at which they expand, transform, or tilt into instability. “∞” is a closed loop of a curve, yet also an ongoing metamorphosis without end.

The group exhibition Unlimited is co-organised by Tinglan Art Gallery and the Experimental Art Department of Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, curated by ZHANG Hailun, and unveiled at Tinglan Art Gallery beside the Shenyang Imperial Palace. Continuing a cross-disciplinary research approach, the exhibition brings together artists from diverse countries and cultural backgrounds, each working with an international perspective. Their practices span painting, sculpture, installation, moving image, performance, computational art, and cross-media experimental forms, opening multiple pathways and logics through which to deconstruct and inquire into the relationships between self and world. Across these varied practices, the artists, consciously or intuitively, touch upon the outer edges of human cognition—where the finite and the infinite overlap, and where boundaries are shifted and rewritten.

As we look into the works, we are also looking into ourselves and into the world. “Unlimited” is not an abstract notion, but a state of continual emergence: the flow of form, the echo of space-time, the evolution of mind, the transcendence of perception. In this ongoing dialogue initiated through art, we invite you to approach with courage and curiosity, and to encounter a broader truth: the infinite is not a distant, unreachable realm—it is the world unfolding around us, and it is something we carry within ourselves.