This exhibition showcases works from the museum collection that take their starting point from an interest in the material world. When glass goes beyond the limits of temperature and melts into clay, and analog signals become runaway beasts in closed circuits, materials are transformed from silent supporting characters into protagonists of artistic expression. Artists relinquish their obsession over things being “controllable,” provocatively guiding these materials towards a central role or focus.

The theme of Material fever indicates not only the artist’s passion for the material in question, but also the heat that the material itself contains. The visitor to this exhibition will experience not what the artist has created, but rather the process by which the material achieves a seance-like state through the artist. Here, matter is not an object that has been tamed by enlightened reason, but rather a form of subjectivity with the power to resist and negotiate, constructing a wild, symbiotic world together with humans.

Welcome to the Material fever exhibition. Under the guidance of the artists, let us recreate a kind of physical dialogue with the world, and reexamine the relationship between humans and the material world by experiencing these works with all of our senses.