Traveling While Lying Down

Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, the Netherlands

24 - 26.10.2025

Clouds gathered from past journeys drift across the surfaces—fragments of memory, still yet restless. Traveling While Lying Down (卧游) recalls bed-screens in Imperial China whose painted panels turned rest into imaginative travel. The work moves between two lineages of landscape painting: one a scenic, museological hang, with fragments stilled and flattened for viewing, the other a daily, quiet act of repair, a momentary folding of the landscape into a functioning bed. An invitation to dwelling and participation, depending on when one arrives, the other half is always elsewhere. You catch one state and imagine the other.
The exhibition is part of Open Studios 2025 at Jan van Eyck Academie.

Poem + thoughts.