TheBau Haus Gallery

19/05/2025

BUHI: a release to live
Opens Mon to Sat
3PM to 10PM
From May 17 to 31, 2025

17/05/2025

BUHI — A Release to Live

This exhibition traces an arc—
from Art’s Death, its Clearing (Higayon), to its Release (Buhi).
In 2020 we held a 40-day vigil, exhaling art’s suffocation, mourning for its passing.
For three years, we descended into the underworld — to stay with what we had lost. Not in lament, but in surrender —in letting go.

Like Mebuyan, who refused to ascend and remained in Gimokudan—
to attend those forgotten, the unfed, the unclaimed.
We, too, chose to stay. To comtemplate.
We thought of how to unbind Art from ownership, commerce, and status.
We unbound it, piece by piece — until there was nothing left to grasp.

Its body lay in the clearing —
emptied, opened, waiting. We listened.
We learned to sit with art’s absence.
To give it Higayon.
We waited, not to resurrect but to make a room
—to meet art.
HIGAYON is the breath of clearing —
a space where art can emerge without the weight of possession.
A space where we let art be art, unspoken, unclaimed.

Within another two years, we ask:
What is art when it is no longer a commodity?
What remains when art slips from our grasp and breathes on its own?
—Breath is what remains.

BUHI is the return of art to life.
A release—as a current, as a pulse, as a flow.
BUHI is the moment art becomes again —
A living, breathing presence — uncontained, alive, free.
Its no longer a possession, but a becoming. Not what we grasp, but what carries us. Not what we consume, but what consumes us.

Art returns.
And so do we — to the clearing, to the breath, to the living.
To BUHI — the arrival, the becoming, the breath of art.

10/05/2025

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