Running Horse, Flowing Time

A journey through life’s cycles in paper cutting, where the past connects to the present through motion, light, and memory.

Time moves in rhythm, advancing through repetition and returning in waves.

This exhibition takes the Running Horse Lantern (走馬燈) as a conceptual point of departure, using the image of the horse in motion as a way to reflect on time and life. Traditionally, the running horse lantern creates a sense of movement through a sequence of images, allowing still forms to suggest the passage of time. It does not appear just as a physical object, but also as a structural idea that shapes the rhythm and progression of the works.

The exhibition unfolds through a series of works that follow the horse through changing states, corresponding to experiences shared across a lifetime: birth, aging, illness, and passing. These are not treated as linear endpoints, but as conditions that recur and overlap. The movement of the horse becomes a reflection of time in motion, and of life's rhythm carried across generations.

As light flows through the works, it shapes the experience of time and the continuity of culture. It emerges in layers, negative space, and the rhythm of viewing, allowing tradition to be sensed rather than declared. Transmission here is not replication, but a living process shaped by change, through which continuity endures.

As viewers move through the exhibition, time is no longer only a setting. It becomes a presence. In a moment of reflection, one may look back at one’s own place and recognize what the poem describes: “After searching for them a thousand times in the crowd, I turn my head, and there they are, where the lights grow dim.” That “person” is both another and oneself, reminding us that we are each part of time and part of inheritance.

奔馬，流光

透過剪紙，展開生命循環之旅；在動態、光影與記憶之間，連結過去與當下。

時間並非筆直前行，而是在反覆中推進，在回返中延續。

本展覽以「走馬燈」作為概念出發點，將馬的奔跑轉化為觀看時間與生命的方式。走馬燈原以連續圖像製造運動的錯覺，使靜止的形象在流轉之中產生時間感；在此，它不作為具體形式出現，而是成為串連作品之間節奏與結構的起點。

展覽由一系列作品構成，透過馬在不同狀態中的變化，回應人一生反覆經歷的歷程：生、老、病、死。這些狀態並非線性終點，而是在生命中交錯出現。馬在畫面中的移動，象徵時間的流動，也指向世代之間延續不斷的生命節奏。

作品以「光」串連時間與傳承。它存在於圖像的層次、留白與觀看的節奏之中，使文化在流動中被感知、被延續。這樣的傳承不是複製，而是在不斷變化之中持續發生的過程。薪火相傳，生生不息。

當觀者行走於作品之間，時間不再只是背景，而成為被感知的存在。或許在某個瞬間，回望自身的位置，會忽然明白——「眾裡尋他千百度，驀然回首，那人卻在，燈火闌珊處。」 那個「人」，既是他者，也是身處時間與傳承之中的自己。