Curated by Lily Li, Celebration sees JIN Han’s painting practice become a way to manifest energy.
JIN regards natural phenomena, cosmic order, and the flow of human emotion as expressions of the same underlying “force” — an invisible ether that continuously moves through all things. Through the act of image-making, he seeks to trace these hidden rhythms, using painting as a medium between the material and the spiritual.
Over the past three years, JIN’s work has evolved from Weather Map to Snow Crystal, and now to his new series Celebration — forming a trajectory from natural observation to spiritual abstraction.
In Weather Map, he depicted the movement of energy through the shifting forms of clouds, reconstructing a sense of fluid visual order through the interplay of colour and structure.
In Snow Crystal, the recurring hexagonal structure of snowflakes became a vehicle for exploring the balance between order and chance, science and mysticism — crystalline geometries that evoke both the structure of nature and the faint echoes of cosmic microwaves.
In Celebration, these visual experiences are further distilled and transformed. The ageing and explosion of stars are reimagined as symbolic rituals of light — silent celebrations that release energy in stillness, reflecting on the cycles of loss and renewal.
More than a title, Celebration marks a convergence in JIN Han’s recent artistic journey. It continues his exploration of “ether” and “energy,” while shifting painting from the representation of nature toward the revelation of spirit. The light, colour, and form within these works gesture outward to the vastness of the cosmos, yet also inward toward the human condition — a meditation on existence, time, and distance.
JIN Han’s Celebration is not a spectacle of noise, but a quiet ceremony —a gaze into light, a listening to silent energy, and a reflection on our place within the universe: a search for warmth and spiritual grounding amid the stillness of the cosmic order.
