黑料不打烊

everything is borrowed is a solo exhibition by Clay AD. They will present a new sculpture installation and a five channel sound piece in collaboration with the artist Hang Linton.

The title of the show arrived to AD during meditation where they found themselves on the top of a mountain; there they saw a crow sitting on top of a huge pile of stuff - the cosmic junkyard. The crow was holding something shiny in her beak. After watching one another for a long moment the crow said 鈥渆verything is borrowed鈥�. She flew away holding the object which flashed in the light.

This work is a prayer on grief, faith and the magic of rot. AD uses the spiritual themes of their childhood -- heaven, hell, the devil, the scapegoat, eden, etc. as a beginning point to reflect on how these stories have shaped binaries of good and evil, purity and sin which have been used to morally justify control, violence, and exclusion. In response the exhibition turns to gnostic texts, ancient trees, pre-Christian stories, personal experience, and gay culture to take an inventory of belief. Rather than rejecting spiritual systems outright, everything is borrowed asks what might be reimagined or salvaged from their remains. It is an invitation to rest in contradiction, to make meaning without moral clarity, and to build new cosmologies from what we inherit, reshape, and pass on.