SAC Gallery invites art lovers to navigate the architecture of perception through a nomadic mind during “Only I Am You, Then I Became You”, which is running on the 2nd and 3rd floor, until Nov 8.
This is an immersive, site-specific exhibition held in Asia for the first time by Jiajia Qi, a Netherlands-based Chinese artist whose practice is exploring transformation, intuitive sensing and the search for belonging.
Raised in China and having lived across New Zealand, Egypt, Japan and Europe, Qi carries with her what she calls “nomadic thought of liquid”, a way of being that welcomes ambiguity, listens to space and never clings to certainty.
Rather than imposing form, she allows materials and architecture to guide her. Her installations often take the form of suspended light, evaporating mist, softened sound or slowly shifting matter, each creating atmospheres rather than objects, encounters rather than explanations.
For her, each work emerges through attentive observation and sensory engagement with the surrounding architecture, atmosphere and light. Rather than asserting itself upon space, the work grows from within it, proposing a model of co-existence where nothing dominates, but everything is in flux — responsive, tentative and alive.
Moving between materials both fragile and elemental — powder, water, recycled minerals, air — Qi builds worlds that unfold gradually, where nothing is forced but everything is felt. Her training in sociology, interior architecture and interactive media design contributes to the layered clarity of her installations, which linger in the mind long after the room is left.
Her site-specific, experiential installations were exhibited at leading art spaces across Europe and Asia where she has completed more than 15 residencies.
SAC Gallery is on Sukhumvit 39 and opens daily from 11am to 6pm, except Monday. There is no admission fee.