Stay With Me (Neither Here nor There)
Andrius Alvarez-Backus 安德鲁斯・阿尔瓦雷斯-巴克斯
Christopher Hartmann 克里斯托弗・哈特曼
Isaac Soh Fujita Howell 艾萨克・藤田 聪・霍威尔
Luo Ran 罗然Sarah Slappey 莎拉・斯拉佩
Woo Hannah 禹汉娜
展览时间：2026年3月18日至4月30日
Opening: Wednesday, March 18, 4–7 PM
About the Exhibition
Gallery Vacancy荣幸地宣布将于2026年3月18日至4月30日呈现群展“和我在一起（漫无边际）”。本次展览汇集了安德鲁斯·阿尔瓦雷斯-巴克斯（b.1999）、克里斯托弗·哈特曼（b.1993）、艾萨克·藤田 聪·霍威尔（b.1993）、罗然（b.1992）、莎拉·斯拉佩（b.1984）以及禹汉娜（b.1988）的近期创作。
展览标题源于一句欧美俗语“neither here nor there”，在日常语境下，它常被用来形容一种不着边际、难以归类或无关紧要的状态。当这一状态与“和我在一起”这一充满温度的诉求并置时，一个迷人的悖论随之浮现：一方面是渴望建立连接的亲密诉求，另一方面却是拒绝被固定、无法被定位的游移状态。在这样的氛围中，情感并不依赖于某种安定感，而是在不断的游移中寻找支点，让“在一起”成为一种需要被不断确认的动态过程。
禹汉娜，螺旋之心，2026，布料、填充物、铝材、珠饰（含螺纹吊挂装置），60 x 27 x 22 公分，23 5/8 x 10 5/8 x 8 5/8 英寸
Woo Hannah, Spiral Core, 2026, Fabric, stuffing, aluminum, beads (with threaded bolt hanger), 60 x 27 x 22 cm, 23 5/8 x 10 5/8 x 8 5/8 in
莎拉・斯拉佩，灯火，2026，布面油画，122 x 111.8 公分，48 x 44 英寸
Gallery Vacancy is pleased to announce the group exhibition Stay With Me (Neither Here nor There), on view from March 18 to April 30, 2026. The exhibition features recent works by Andrius Alvarez-Backus, Christopher Hartmann, Isaac Soh Fujita Howell, Luo Ran, Sarah Slappey, and Woo Hannah.
The exhibition takes its cue from a familiar idiom—neither here nor there—which in a casual sense names a condition of drift, misalignment, or insignificance. Paired with the direct appeal of stay with me, the title opens a paradox: a request for closeness addressed to a state that refuses fixed location. In such an atmosphere, connection does not rely on fixed guarantees; instead, it finds its pivot within constant movement, making “staying together” a dynamic process that requires perpetual reconfirmation.
Across painting, assemblage, sculpture, and installation, the participating artists approach this condition through different registers of material and spatial attention. Andrius Alvarez-Backus and Woo Hannah explore the surfaces of objects to examine the sedimentation of memory and time. Alvarez-Backus’s works, such as Leave the Lights On For Me (2025), utilize found textiles to construct dense surfaces where texture behaves as a carrier of touch and pressure, registering the traces accumulated through use and inheritance. This dialogue is extended by Woo Hannah’s fabric installations; her Spiral Core (2026) series originated from a personal medical experience involving a missing organ, translating invisible fear into wearable sculptures that explore bodily states existing yet resisting clear classification.
关于艺术家
About the Artists
Christopher Hartmann, born in 1993 in Hassfurt, Germany, is a German-Costa Rican artist who lives and works in London. He holds an MA in Communication Design from Central Saint Martins and completed his MFA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London, in 2021. Through luminous layers of oil paint and a visual language shaped by digital image editing and the glow of the screen, Hartmann renders figures and interiors with a heightened realism that feels both precise and faintly estranged. Often focusing on figures caught in moments of repose, proximity, or implied exchange, his work examines fragile relations shaped by longing, detachment, and the conditions of a technologically mediated present. Recent solo exhibitions include: On Your Own, BLUM and Nassima Landau Art Foundation, Paris, 2024; Nightswimming, BLUM & Poe, Los Angeles, 2023; No Signal, König Galerie, Berlin, 2022; and State of Life, May I Live, May I Love, T&Y Projects, Tokyo, 2022. Recent group exhibitions include: Stay With Me: Neither Here nor There, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, 2026; Clear History, Perrotin, Paris, 2025. London Grads Now, Saatchi Gallery, London, 2020; Tomorrow: London, White Cube, London, 2020. He was awarded the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant in 2020 and was a resident at The Fores Project, London, in 2020.
Isaac Soh Fujita Howell, born in 1993 in the US, now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Howell received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Washington University in St. Louis in 2015, and his Master of Fine Arts from Yale University in 2017. Howell’s practice focuses on scenes in constant motion, where figures and architecture converge at transitional thresholds. Within compressed interior sites, he explores the subtle negotiation between bodies, intimacy, and publicness, allowing indeterminacy to function as a structural principle that sustains the tension of an "in-between" atmosphere and an open-ended observation. Recent solo exhibitions include: Audiovisual, Sébastien Bertrand Gallery, Geneva, 2025; By order from above (and we are all dutiful citizens), T293, Rome, 2024; A rabid dog has no choice but to bite, Public Gallery, London, 2023; 11 Operatic Emissions from the Ghost Terminal, Galerie Dengyun, Shanghai, 2022. Recent group exhibitions include: Stay With Me: Neither Here nor There, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, 2026; Cosmic Flush: Images of Scuffle, Sébastien Bertrand Gallery, Geneva, 2025; An Average Comet, Harkawik, New York, 2024; Synthetic Bodies, Lyles & King Gallery, New York, 2023; Durian On The Skin, François Ghebaly, Los Angeles, 2022. He was the recipient of the Wave Hill Winter Workspace Program, New York, 2021; the Cité Internationale des Arts Residency, Paris, 2019; the Harriet Hale Woolley Scholarship, Fondation des États-Unis, 2017; and the Ellen Battel Stoeckel Fellowship, Yale University, 2014.
罗然，1992 年出生于兰州，现生活、工作于杭州。本硕毕业于中国美术学院漆艺专业。他的工作内容是关注当下人的情感为主题，关注现实和技术景观以及背后的逻辑关系。他把这种关注理解为一场注入情感的游戏，艺术家在此不断发现和制造隐秘复杂的彩蛋。他的作品曾被X美术馆、星美术馆及四方当代美术馆等机构收藏。近期个展包括：“亲密的流形”，可以画廊，北京，2025；“副词 Adverb”，北京当代艺术博览会，北京，2023；“所有念头在窗口中浮动，Loading…taste good ! ”，可以画廊 ，合肥，2021。他参加的群展有：“和我在一起（漫无边际）”，Gallery Vacancy，上海，2026；“是时候了——22个艺术家个案”，可以画廊，合肥，2025；“An Average Comet”，Harkawik，纽约，2024；“ 娜拉出走之后”，悠艺术中心，北京，2024；“智能秩序”，69 Art Campus，北京，2023；“植物神经紊乱”，可以画廊，北京，2023；“少女的收藏101”，X美术馆，北京，2023；“遇见预见——当代艺术藏家推荐展”，博乐得，北京，2022；“一米之内，抽象绘画艺术群展”，BLANK Gallery，上海，2022；“返场：ART021X衡山路8号”，ART021上海廿一当代艺术博览会，上海，2022。
Luo Ran, born in Lanzhou in 1992, now lives and works in Hangzhou. He graduated from the Lacquer Art major at the China Academy of Art for both his bachelor's and master's degrees. His work focuses on contemporary human emotions as the theme, paying attention to the reality and technological landscape, as well as the underlying logical relationships. He interprets this focus as a game infused with emotions, in which the artist continuously discovers and creates hidden and intricate Easter eggs. His works have been collected by X Museum, Start Museum, Sifang Art Museum and other institutions. His solo exhibitions include: The Manifold of Intimacy, KeYi Gallery, Beijing, 2025; Adverb, Beijing Contemporary Expo, Beijing, 2023; All Thoughts Floating in the Window, Loading...taste good!, KeYi Gallery, Hefei, 2021.The group exhibitions include: Stay With Me: Neither Here nor There, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, 2026; The time has come - Case studies of 22 Artists, KeYi Gallery, Hefei, 2025；An Average Comet, Harkawik, New York, 2024; Nora's Departure, You Art Center, Beijing, 2024; Intelligent Order, 69 ART CAMPUS, Beijing, 2023; Autonomic Disorder, KeYi Gallery, Beijing, 2023; Girl's Collection 101, X Museum, Beijing, 2023; Encounter & Foreseeing - A Contemporary Art Exhibition Recommended By Collectors, Bolide, Beijing, 2022; Within One Meter, Abstract Painting Art Group Exhibition, BLANK Gallery, Shanghai, 2022; Encore: ART021 X Hengshan Road No.8, ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, Shanghai, 2022.
莎拉・斯拉佩，1984年出生于美国南卡罗来纳州哥伦比亚，现生活、工作于纽约布鲁克林。她于2006年获得维克森林大学工作室艺术学士学位，并于2016年获得亨特学院绘画硕士学位。斯拉佩的绘画创作围绕着身体作为一种可变且流动的存在。通过将手、脚与躯体局部置于悬置的空间之中，她构建出一种张力与感知暧昧彼此交缠的画面结构；在她的作品里，私密性并不意味着稳定与安全感，愉悦之中始终潜藏着不安。近期个展包括：“Bloodline”，Bernheim，伦敦，2024；“Sacrifices”，Galerie Maria Bernheim，苏黎世，2022；“Self Care”，Sargent’s Daughters，纽约，2021。近期群展包括：“和我在一起（漫无边际）”，Gallery Vacancy，上海，2026；“The Beauty of Diversity”，阿尔贝蒂娜现代博物馆，维也纳，2024；“Beloved”，博伊曼斯·范伯宁恩美术馆，鹿特丹，2024；“Siren Song”，四禧美术馆，南京，2024；“All Walks of Life”，佩斯画廊，香港，2023；“Public Private”，池社，上海，2023；“PRESENT ’23: Building the Scantland Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art”，哥伦布艺术博物馆，哥伦布，2023；“I’m Stepping High, I’m Drifting, And There I Go Leaping”，Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art，苏州，2022；“Fire, Figure, Fantasy”，迈阿密当代艺术学院，迈阿密，2022；“Sweet Lust”，白立方，巴黎，2022。她的作品收藏于：赫施霍恩博物馆与雕塑园，华盛顿；阿尔贝蒂娜博物馆，维也纳；迈阿密佩雷斯艺术博物馆；迈阿密当代艺术学院；哥伦布艺术博物馆，哥伦布；日内瓦现代与当代艺术博物馆，日内瓦；橙县艺术博物馆，科斯塔梅萨；博伊曼斯·范伯宁恩美术馆，鹿特丹；蒙特利尔美术馆，蒙特利尔；池社，上海；K11 Musea，香港；四禧美术馆，南京。
Sarah Slappey, born in 1984 in Columbia, South Carolina, lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BA in Studio Art from Wake Forest University in 2006 and her MFA in Painting from Hunter College in 2016. Slappey’s paintings center on the body as a mutable, shifting presence. Through isolated hands, feet, and partial figures set within spare, suspended spaces, she composes scenes where tension and sensory ambiguity remain closely intertwined. In her works, intimacy is never fully secure and pleasure is edged with unease. Recent solo exhibitions include: Bloodline, Bernheim, London, 2024; Sacrifices, Galerie Maria Bernheim, Zurich, 2022; Self Care, Sargent’s Daughters, New York, 2021. Recent group exhibitions include: Stay With Me: Neither Here nor There, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, 2026; The Beauty of Diversity, Albertina Modern, Vienna, 2024; Beloved, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 2024; Siren Song, Sixi Museum, Nanjing, 2024; All Walks of Life, Pace Gallery, Hong Kong, 2023; Public Private, Pond Society, Shanghai, 2023; PRESENT ’23: Building the Scantland Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, 2023; I’m Stepping High, I’m Drifting, And There I Go Leaping, Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Suzhou, 2022; Fire, Figure, Fantasy, ICA Miami, Miami, 2022; and Sweet Lust, White Cube, Paris, 2022. Her work is held in the collections of the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.; Albertina Museum, Vienna; Pérez Art Museum Miami; Institute of Contemporary Art Miami; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus; Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva; Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal; The Pond Society, Shanghai; K11 Musea, Hong Kong; Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Suzhou; and Sixi Museum, Nanjing.
禹汉娜，1988年出生于韩国首尔，现生活、工作于首尔。禹汉娜于2012年和2016年先后获得韩国国立中央艺术大学视觉艺术学士及硕士学位。她的创作实践旨在想象一种超越有限与固定身体的生存状态。通过以织物为核心媒介，她的作品跨越了绘画、雕塑与装置的界限，将对立的两极——如生与死、保护与被保护、痛苦与愉悦——置于共生的语境中，提示了生命形态在物质性与精神性之间的交织与补全。近期个展包括：“Poomsae”，G Gallery，首尔，2025；“Appearances”，G Gallery 於 Frieze No. 9 Cork Street，伦敦，2023；“Tumbleweeds”，艺术空间BOAN2，首尔，2023；“Ma Moitié”，松隐艺术中心，首尔，2020；“Moulage Mélancolique”，P.S. Sarubia，首尔，2019。近期群展包括：和我在一起（漫无边际），Gallery Vacancy，上海，2026；“At the end of the world split endlessly”，首尔市立美术馆，首尔，2024；“Living in Joy”，善宰艺术中心，首尔，2023；“Sculptural Impulse”，首尔市立北首尔美术馆，首尔，2022；“Linkin Out”，一民美术馆，首尔，2019。她于2023年荣获“弗里兹艺术家奖”。禹汉娜的作品收藏于：KADIST 基金会；善宰艺术中心，首尔；斗山艺术中心，首尔；首尔市立美术馆，首尔。
Woo Hannah, born in 1988 in Seoul, South Korea, now lives and works in Seoul. Woo received both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Visual Art from the Korea National University of Arts in 2012 and 2016. Her creative practice imagines an existence that transcends the notion of a finite and fixed body. Utilizing fabric as her primary medium, her work blurs the boundaries of genre—spanning painting, sculpture, and installation—to converge polarized states such as the living and the dead, the protecting and the protected, and the painful and the joyful, suggesting a symbiotic completion of life forms. Recent solo exhibitions include: Poomsae, G Gallery, Seoul, 2025;
Appearances, G Gallery at Frieze No.9 Cork Street, London, 2023; Connection: Woo Hannah Open Studio, G Gallery, Seoul, 2023; Ma Moitié, SongEun Artcube, Seoul, 2020; Moulage Mélancolique, P.S. Sarubia, Seoul, 2019. Recent group exhibitions include: Stay With Me: Neither Here nor There, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, 2026; At the end of the world split endlessly, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, 2024; Living in Joy, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, 2023; Sculptural Impulse, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, 2022; Linkin Out, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, 2019. She was the recipient of the Frieze Artist Award in 2023. Hannah’s works are in the collections of KADIST; Art Sonje Center, Seoul; DOOSAN Art Center, Seoul; and Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul.
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