This year, Yiwei Gallery presents Lucid Dream at ART021 Shanghai 2026. Lucid Dream anchors a full curatorial presentation—a group exhibition whose artists work across disparate media yet share a single question: how intuition precedes reason as a way of knowing the world.

Michael Polanyi wrote, “We can know more than we can tell.” What lies beyond what we can tell is the territory of intuition, the first occurrence of knowing. We are accustomed to handing “knowing” over to reason: first define, then compare, and finally assign cause and effect—yet intuition is always already present, prior to reason.

Here “prior” is not a head start in time but a precedence in the order of knowing.

And so, the dream is not dispelled, not explained, not taken apart; the dreamer simply recognizes, while the dream is still unfolding, that they are dreaming—and chooses to stay. There, certainty is not the price of knowing.

The booth takes Lucid Dream as its theme: a lucid dream is a state in which awareness returns to the dream without ending it. This presentation moves from narrative scenes (Kay Seohyung Lee’s deep-blue crowds, Zhou Yuyue’s blurred faces and crescent moons, Yang Yifan’s surreal landscapes), through the body and the inner cosmos (Sun Yao’s Inner Universe series, Ruowei Liu ‘s fluid paintings drawn from memories of the grasslands), to the thresholds of material and perception (Alexis Wong’s fragile sculptures of coral fossils, raw silk, and porcelain clay)—inviting viewers to set aside preconceptions and enter the works through intuition.

Venue
Booth W03, Shanghai Exhibition Center

Artists
Alexis Wong, Kay Seohyung Lee, Ruowei Liu, Sun Yao, Yang Yifan, Zhou Yuyue

Exhibition Dates
November 11-14, 2026

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(Text and images courtesy of Yiwei Gallery)