The public art exhibition "Waves & Ways" to the Macao International Art Biennale 2025 integrates art into the urban fabric and daily life. Inviting viewers to reimagine the possibilities of public spaces through their flows and pauses, exploring the fluid, negotiated, and reconstructed social connections. The exhibition theme "Waves & Ways" not only describes physical trajectories of movement but also maps of the cultural topography of emotional tides and spiritual journeys. Like waves surging and paths interweaving, they are cyclical and perpetual, symbolizing the constantly interweaving symbiotic relationship between public art, the public, and communities. This exhibition views public art as a fluid field, dedicated to creating a communal imagination full of intimacy and participation, exploring how to establish empathy and understanding through art in our rapidly changing modern society, and how to find a sense of belonging and life's meaning in the ebb and flow of human connections. Here, each wave represents an opportunity for encounter, while each path suggests the continuation of emotions. Each ripple, each intersection, each interaction becomes a microscopic practice of reconstructing social imagination. Through interactive installations, community projects, and multi-sensory experiences, artworks become bridges connecting people with people, and people with the city, sparking life's resonance and dialogue, reshaping the connotations and boundaries of public space. Under the thematic context of the Macao International Art Biennale's "Hey, What brings you here?", "Waves & Ways" invites every viewer to break traditional exhibition boundaries and join this fluid art space as witnesses, participants, and co-creators of social life and urban culture, collectively weaving the emotional texture of the City.
Curators Feng Boyi, Liu Gang, Wu Wei