“Every way of seeing is a way of being seen.”— John Berger, Ways of Seeing

To see is never merely to look. Seeing is how we perceive things, how we understand others, and how we respond to the world. It is always invisibly coded by experience, language, culture, and knowledge. In this sense, artistic creation becomes an act of intervention and reconfiguration: through images, colors, narratives, or structures, it re-translates the relationship between the world and ourselves.

Fusion Chronicle brings together the works of eight artists from Fish Art Center, each engaging in this process of translation in distinctly different ways.

Some begin with the scientific principles of light and color, reconstructing the logic of perception. Some project perception onto the other, narrating through another’s perspective. Others weave together new possibilities between nature and civilization, the everyday and the mythical — opening up reflection and deconstruction of seeing itself. Though varied in form, their works share a core conviction: art is not the replication of reality, but its transformation and intervention.

Artistic creation is no longer just an image that represents the world, but a translator — operating in its own language, guiding viewers into the flows of perception, thought, and experience from different vantage points. Characters and figures may serve as media, but more profoundly, it is the stance of seeing and the interpretive strategies each artist adopts that matter.

As John Berger reminds us, “seeing” is a cultural act — an act of reordering perception and power.

This exhibition invites viewers to set aside habitual ways of looking and step into these“translated worlds.” What you encounter may not be just the images themselves, but the very moment when perception is unsettled — a question posed by the artist: Do we truly see what we believe we see?