Intangible Infrastructure

Hol（洞）will present the group exhibition Intangible Infrastructure in May 2026, featuring works by five artists:

Feng Zhixuan, Huang Juan, Chia-hsuan Lin, Shao Fengtian and Yao Tiao. Through fragmented material practices, these works draw attention to the latent structures that lie on the visual periphery yet silently and sustainably underpin everyday perception.

The term "infrastructure" here does not refer to urban engineering or public facilities. Instead, it denotes the fundamental conditions that allow images, objects and narratives to manifest as they are - those undefined micro-orders that are hard to fully recognize, as they lie marginalized outside the narrative center. Rather than emphasizing the integrity of imagery, the five artists seek to render the underlying infrastructural elements visible and tangible. When vision is no longer anchored by a definitive central figure, the hidden dependencies between different elements come to the fore.

In these artworks, the materiality of media is continuously amplified. By concealing, folding, splicing and cutting materials, artists liberate them from their role as mere carriers of meaning, transforming them instead into the primary site where "events" happen. This practice does not aim at a finished artwork; rather, the very process of presentation itself becomes the true essence of the viewing experience. What audiences encounter is often not a definable figurative form, but traces, contingencies, and material states yet to reach full formation.

Audiences, together with the artists, partake in a kind of "indeterminate viewing": gradually breaking free from the cognitive inertia of fixating on recognizability, and constructing the meaning of works through ongoing observation and interpretation.

As infrastructure transitions from the intangible to the tangible, we come to realize that the "center" is nothing more than a constructed visual order. When we are "thrown into the world", we are cast not into a fixed collection of ready-made objects, but into an array of relationships in constant generation and evolution.

From the perspective of Intangible Infrastructure , the world is no longer perceived as an assemblage of distinct entities, but as an ever-evolving, perpetually rewoven network of relationships. The exhibition regards the very act of manifestation as an artwork in its own right.