The London Art Collective (LAC) considers its annual exhibition a continuous project, with the exhibition ArtEvol 2025: Voices from the Undefined intended to continue and summarise LAC’s exhibition direction over the past few years. ‘Evol’, which signifies ‘evolution’, has each letter representing the spirit of each year’s exhibition. In the previous four years, these were: Launch, Openness, Versus, and Exchange, moving from ‘opening’ to ‘openness’ and from ‘dialogue’ to ‘communication’, forming the core methodology of this series. From the first major annual exhibition, Neo-Space: Meet the New Generation of Independent Artists in 2022, LAC has been committed to supporting emerging artists and providing exhibition opportunities for them. In the following years, as the global art ecosystem entered a stage emphasising collaboration and co-production, collective art and collaboration gradually became an important trend in the international art world. In this context, the 2024 exhibition ART COLLECTIVE: From the One to the Many further deepened and echoed the global context. ArtEvol 2025: Voices from the Undefined focuses on the artists in contemporary art who come from different cultural backgrounds and possess diverse developmental experiences and forms of expression. They may not have entered mainstream institutions, established cooperative relationships with galleries, or been included in the existing art market system. LAC refers to them as ‘Undefined Voices’ and believes that the diversity they bring will open up more exciting possibilities for the contemporary art ecosystem. The concept of the ArtEvol 2025: Voices from the Undefined exhibition revolves around the ideas of cybernetic art (feedback, adaptation, and open systems), presenting how artists generate responses in specific times and environments and engage in fluid practices across different disciplines, identities, and media. These creative methods reflect the mainstream trend of interdisciplinary and borderless contemporary art. These practices remind us that the value of ‘new’ lies both in the process of becoming and in the ideas it generates. The exhibition also focuses on voices that are often overlooked in conflict areas, marginalised communities, and areas outside the centre of the art world, and presents related works. ArtEvol 2025: Voices from the Undefined creates a space for dialogue where these emerging practices can be truly heard and viewed equally, not as exceptions, but as possibilities for the future itself. This curatorial approach adopts a salon-style layout, breaks the traditional single, linear flow, and is not confined to the zoning and ordering typical of mainstream exhibitions. By displaying dense and multi-level works, a free, open, and sporadic spatial atmosphere is created, allowing the audience to wander freely and make discoveries among the works. This design not only reflects the concept of diverse coexistence and continuous emergence advocated by the exhibition, but also strengthens the development of uncertainty and nonlinearity in artistic practice. The audience is no longer passively accepting a single narrative here, but is invited to participate in a multi-perspective, interwoven and continuous dialogue experience, redefining the relationship among the works and between viewers and artworks. Under the framework of ArtEvol 2025: Voices from the Undefined , the core issues addressed by the exhibition include identity generation, the relationship between technology and the body, ecological awareness, and visibility politics. These practices often arise from cross-cultural transfer experiences, constant changes, and technological interventions in daily life. Artists deal with the tension between technology and the body in their works, revealing how human perception is reshaped by algorithms, media
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