Small Gallery 斯磨畫廊

Expect

Etymons: Latin exspectāre.

'To look out for, await'

'To think or believe something will happen'

 

We always carry a certain form of expectation toward ourselves, which gradually dissolves alongside the trajectories of life, yet continuously regenerates itself within the unconscious.

 

'Expected' and 'Expecting' together form a resonant duo, throughout time, like a version of the future that was meant to be realised, but has never come to pass. In this sense, expectation becomes more than anticipation. It becomes a kind of illusion about our ability to understand reality. While entering the exhibition carrying “expectations,” what lies within has already been pre-constructed in a certain way. By reexamining “expectation” itself, we might recognise that expectation is never neutral but always directed.

 

Here, we attempt to question the familiar ways of encountering contemporary art, how it may shape, limit, or even obscure our experience of it. At the same time, we ask why we are drawn to things that have not yet happened, and why the future often seems more capable than reality of carrying emotions that remain difficult to express.