Upcoming Exhibition
Sihan Guo & Yein Lee: Blooming Reverie Moonlight Dreams
PODIUM is pleased to present ‘Blooming Reverie, Moonlight Dreams’, a duo exhibition with Shanghai-based Sihan Guo and Vienna-based
Yein Lee, bringing together two distinct yet resonant practices that contemplate the impermanence of perception, inviting viewers to dwell within the shifting space between reality and illusion, where forms bloom, dissolve, and return as traces of an infinite, transforming dream.
The exhibition opens on 28 November (Sat) from 4 to 7 PM, and remains on view through 13 February 2027 (Sat).
Yein Lee, bringing together two distinct yet resonant practices that contemplate the impermanence of perception, inviting viewers to dwell within the shifting space between reality and illusion, where forms bloom, dissolve, and return as traces of an infinite, transforming dream.
The exhibition opens on 28 November (Sat) from 4 to 7 PM, and remains on view through 13 February 2027 (Sat).
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Anchoring the exhibition is the philosophical image of jing hua shui yue—’mirror, flower, water, and moon’—a phrase that evokes forms of imagery that can be seen but never grasped. Like a reflection in a mirror or the moon suspended upon water, they appear tangible while remaining fundamentally elusive. Sihan Guo and Yein Lee’s works inhabit a liminal space between the corporeal and the cosmic, where landscapes become portals and matter circulates between presence and disappearance. Through their abstracted paintings that evoke celestial terrains and imagined passageways, the artists open onto panoramas that are at once internal, planetary, and otherworldly. Their surfaces suggest worlds in formation: unstable fields in which colour, light, and gesture seem to drift beyond the limits of representation. These paintings propose alternative conditions of seeing, inviting the viewer into a space where the familiar is gradually estranged. Elsewhere, Lee’s sculptures take the form of astrolabes, instruments once used to measure the heavens. They appear to belong simultaneously to archaeology and science fiction, carrying traces of bodies, constellations, and vanished systems of knowledge, becoming a device for orientation within an unknowable universe.
The exhibition’s title brings together two states of vision: the blooming reverie, in which the flower opens as an apparition of beauty, and the moonlight dream, in which perception is softened, transformed, and rendered uncertain. Between them lies the fluid realm of water—an image of change, clarity, and impermanence. As water reflects the moon without possessing it, the works in the exhibition hold open a similar tension between appearance and absence, materiality and illusion. In this sense, the presentation is not an attempt to resolve the boundary between reality and fantasy, but to dwell within its instability. In other words, it proposes that disintegration may be a form of becoming: that when the subject dissolves, other modes of relation and perception might emerge. What appears as an ending may instead be a passage into another state—one in which forms continue to bloom, disappear, and return as traces within an infinite, shifting dream.
Installation View
Works
Luis Xertu
Camouflage
Material transformation initiated 2026; ongoing natural chromatic shift
Acrylic and organic materials on canvas
65 x 85 cm | 25.6 x 33.5 in
Camouflage
Material transformation initiated 2026; ongoing natural chromatic shift
Acrylic and organic materials on canvas
65 x 85 cm | 25.6 x 33.5 in
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Held Nothing Against Him
Material transformation initiated 2026; ongoing natural chromatic shift
Acrylic and organic materials on canvas
60 x 75 cm | 23.6 x 29.5 in
Held Nothing Against Him
Material transformation initiated 2026; ongoing natural chromatic shift
Acrylic and organic materials on canvas
60 x 75 cm | 23.6 x 29.5 in
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Luis Xertu
Of Little Light
Material transformation initiated 2026; ongoing natural chromatic shift
Acrylic and organic materials on canvas
55 x 80 cm | 21.7 x 31.5 in
Of Little Light
Material transformation initiated 2026; ongoing natural chromatic shift
Acrylic and organic materials on canvas
55 x 80 cm | 21.7 x 31.5 in
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Gypsophila
Material transformation initiated 2026; ongoing natural chromatic shift
Acrylic and organic materials on canvas
105 x 150 cm | 41.3 x 59.1 in
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Conversation in Green
Material transformation initiated 2026; ongoing natural chromatic shift
Acrylic and organic materials on canvas
105 x 150 cm | 41.3 x 59.1 in
Conversation in Green
Material transformation initiated 2026; ongoing natural chromatic shift
Acrylic and organic materials on canvas
105 x 150 cm | 41.3 x 59.1 in
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Luis Xertu
The Waves
Material transformation initiated 2026; ongoing natural chromatic shift
Acrylic and organic materials on canvas
105 x 150 cm | 41.3 x 59.1 in
The Waves
Material transformation initiated 2026; ongoing natural chromatic shift
Acrylic and organic materials on canvas
105 x 150 cm | 41.3 x 59.1 in
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Luis Xertu
Treading Water
Material transformation initiated 2026; ongoing natural chromatic shift
Acrylic and organic materials on canvas
65 x 150 cm | 25.6 x 59.1 in
Treading Water
Material transformation initiated 2026; ongoing natural chromatic shift
Acrylic and organic materials on canvas
65 x 150 cm | 25.6 x 59.1 in
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