Still as a Stone: The Persistent Body in Mediation examines the body as both transient and enduring, persisting—like stone—across time, media, and transformation. In an age shaped by digitalization and virtuality, where physical presence appears to recede, the exhibition argues that the body never disappears but continually re-emerges through different forms of mediation—whether visible or through its very absence. Bringing together works from the 1960s to the present across photography, sculpture, painting, and moving image, it positions the body as a central concern of conceptual art: a site of memory, power, and identity, and a continuously translated and mediated entity. These works generate dialogues across time, space, and generations, in which the viewer’s own body becomes implicated. The exhibition itself is conceived as a site of embodiment, where material and mediated bodies encounter, activate, and inscribe one another—less a resistance to technological change than an insistence that, despite constant transformation, the body remains persistently present.
Gordon Matta-Clark / Times Museum, Guangzhou, China
Group Exhibition
28 March to 26 July 2026
