We, Such Fragile Beings

“Everyone you love, everyone you know, is on a single dot.”

On February 14, 1990, Voyager 1 sent back a photograph taken from 6.4 billion kilometers away. In that image, Earth appeared as a tiny, pale blue dot, as small as dust in sunlight. On that small dot, humanity is born and loves, conflicts and hates, and eventually disappears.

Sometimes we are overwhelmed by daily life and feel that the reality before our eyes is absolutely everything. However, compared to the vastness of the universe, it is impossible to deny that human life is shorter than a moment and as insignificant as dust. This exhibition began with that humble recognition.

In this journey with thirteen artists, we encounter humanity as small beings. The exhibition unfolds across three exhibition halls and two thematic spaces, where we forget that life is finite and repeat cycles of hatred and conflict. Yet, memories accumulate as time passes, and moments arise when the rhythm of life intersects the flow of the universe. Through records of disappearing things and traces of daily life, we discover our shared fragility.

Through the lens of art, we see possibilities for connection even amid fragmentation. Just as small stars gather to form galaxies in the vast universe, We, Such Fragile Beings is a time to contemplate how individual existence can illuminate and comfort one another.

Now we are all on that pale blue dot.