Buddhist thought describes the world’s essence as the totality of phenomena—a domain. Infinite appears contradictory, yet it is a necessary shorthand for comprehending reality within human finitude. Physically, it echoes a universe expanding at light speed. In our hyper-connected yet fractured reality, this exhibition asks how art can respond to, and make visible, the plural dimensions of the post-global condition.

Opening the Art Box gathers artists of diverse nationalities and trajectories. Their varied media and concepts highlight the plurality of artistic positions and the transformative potential of cross-cultural encounter. Juxtaposing works rooted in distinct cultural-geographic coordinates generates heterogeneous narrative temporalities, opening toward a plural narrative space. Jacques Rancière’s notion of art’s non-identity resonates here with the Buddhist doctrine of non-duality. By placing these plural domains in dialogue, the exhibition aims to catalyze new cultural resonances, forming the narrative ground for the inaugural exhibition at YU + Art Space.

Biologist E. O. Wilson estimates that Earth’s 3.9-billion-year history has produced roughly one billion species; humans have documented only about 1.5 million, less than 2 %. This starkly illustrates the limits of human cognition and the contingency of our existence. Art, at its core, constructs signs from finite understanding and shares the resulting world-picture. Some perceive these signs beforehand, prophets glimpsing contours in dreams or imagination, entering a speculative-memorial space that feels both alien and familiar. Moving between interior worlds, art becomes a vital means of resisting existence and annihilation. For others, these signs appear alien: they may inhabit and internalize them, or choose distance, refusal, or indifference.

All creation is recombination. Does time flow linearly? Are past, present, and future merely