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Intergrade: Unfinished Migration — Charting the Shifting Borders of the Human in the Age of Technology

Photo by Jiabin Xu

In the Era of Mixed Reality: The Great Migration

Intergrade: Unfinished Migration opened with great anticipation at Indra Gallery, London on April 20th, 2025, and successfully concluded on April 25th, 2025. Bringing together 28 international artists, the exhibition explored how human civilization continues its ongoing migration in a time shaped by mixed reality. The works on view spanned a variety of media, including installation, painting, moving image, and sculpture.

In A Cyborg Manifesto, Donna Haraway introduced the cyborg as a hybrid entity that transcends the boundaries between human, animal, and machine—an identity that fundamentally challenges anthropocentrism. As emerging technologies reshape personal experience, they also shift our understanding of both reality and the self. Within the posthuman condition, artists in this exhibition delve into pressing questions of identity, digital belief, consciousness, and free will.

This is a forward-looking and imaginative exhibition—one that invites us to reflect on the evolving relationship between humanity, nature, and society in a technology-driven world. Together, we witness the great exodus of humankind.

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Narratives in Fluid Hybridity

The exhibition unfolds a dialogue between man and technology in the 130-square-foot white box space, and naturally divides the field into three parts through different lighting colours, visual light designs and work structures. Visitors can wander freely through the light and darkness of the space, thus experiencing the migratory process of human civilisation.

The exhibition narrative unfolds in three chapters: Xenovoid, Unnatural, and Hybrid.

Xenovoid addresses the fluidity of identity and the redefinition of the self within overlapping subjectivities.

Unnatural examines the synthetic qualities of man-made objects and the impact of technoscientific ecologies on environmental reconstruction.

Hybrid investigates the material diversities and entanglements generated by digital faith systems and the nature of technological essence.

Xenovoid explores the uncertainty and fragmentation of identity in a state of constant migration. In the face of emerging structures such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and data identity, the original ‘who I am’ is constantly being deconstructed. Individuals in Xenovoid no longer belong to traditional categorisations of country, gender and race, but float between multiple structures.

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Unnatural points to human technological, industrial and cultural interventions and remodelling of the natural world. Neither naturally occurring nor entirely fictional, it is a hybrid ‘unnatural object’.

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Hybrid emphasises cross-cultural, cross-media, and cross-species complexes, the mixing of ‘digital beliefs’ with traditional human spiritual systems, and the mixing of forms in which artistic creation breaks with traditional media.

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This exhibition showcased works by 29 international artists, including: Muchu Ai, Guanyi Chen, Xueting Chen, Ziyang Chen, Hanbing Fang, Yichen He, Millieon Hu, Jing Hsu, Freya Li, Jiaqi Li, Ariel Li, Xinyi Liu, Richard Mackness, Blandine Martin, Yihan Pan, Anning Song, Tree Xu, Jiyun Xia, Tingting Xiao, Wanting Wang, Jane Wu, Xinyuan Yan, Haoyu Ye, Lexiong Ying, Carrie Yin, Gigi Yuxuan Zhang, Lei Zhao & Yingxin Xu, Charlotte Zhou

Intergrade: Unfinished Migration April 20th-25th, 2025 Indra Gallery

Private View: April 19th, 2025 | 6PM – 10PM

Director: Yurui Shi, Producer: Yinzhe Qu, Teng Xue, Lead Curator: Jiabin Xu, Curatorial Execution: Wenwei Li Curatorial Assistant: Ziming He Special Thanks: Chenfei Cai, Ziqi Li, Liz Liao, Shuting Da

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