Ways to See a Spinning Top

A top spins.

A top spins. From a distance, it seems still, but stability comes from its high speed. It will slowly fluctuate and collapse at the end. A spinning top is an object that embodies a state of transition and paradoxical characteristic: being still only when it moves fast. In liquid modernity, having an absolute perspective is no longer imaginable. While rules, systems, and relations are fluctuating, individuals confront certain uncertainty and imperfection in their surroundings and themselves. In the exhibition, each artist seeks one’s own spinning top: Captured Identity, Waving Home, Object Verb, Celebrating Nothing and Scrambled Future. From their own spinning tops, they navigate liquid modernity, liquid everyday life, and liquid self.