Gaston Bachelard says in The Poetics of Space: “Our house is our little corner in the world, as is often said, our first universe, a true universe. If we look intimately at our house, even the most humble and rundown dwelling has something beautiful about it.”
Home is never merely a unit defined by physical boundaries. It is a web woven from people and objects, memory and routine, intimacy and friction. The distance that truly matters is the closeness between hearts.
The heartbeat defies the world's measure of distance. When it races, it becomes longing; when it stills, it finds peace. Even when it stops, the connection remains—transformed into a new rhythm that lives within our memory, our bodies, and our various identities.
Geography and mortality may pull us apart, but the heartbeat remains the ultimate proof of presence.
"Home: Heartbeat Is the Only Distance" is an exhibition jointly presented by Academy of Visual Arts (AVA), School of Creative Arts (SCA), and Centre for Innovative Service-Learning at Hong Kong Baptist University, curated by 18 undergraduate students from the course of Curatorial practice at AVA and in collaboration with HART HAUS and The Lok Sin Tong Benevolent Society, Kowloon. The showcased works derive from intimate dialogues between the artists and their family members—capturing profound emotions that often remain unspoken in the rhythm of daily life.
This exhibition explores a concept of home that transcends physical space, viewing it as an active psychological vessel rather than a mere subject. It holds memories, unconditional support, and complex contradictions, forming a sense of belonging that is rewritten over time. Here, the audience encounters not a singular definition, but a collection of personal responses to home as the emotional and existential origin of the artists' lives.
加斯東·巴舍拉在《空間詩學》說:「我們的家屋是我們在世間的小角落，誠如常有的說法，家屋是我們最初的宇宙，一個真實的宇宙，如果我們親密地看待自己的家屋，即使最破落簡陋的落腳處也有美妙之處。」
這句話之所以動人，是因為它指向一個事實：在一切知識、判斷與社會身份形成之前，我們早已被某個空間所懷抱。那裡構成了我們感知世界最原初的座標系——「家」。
「家」從來不只是物理邊界內的單位。它是人與物、記憶與日常、親密與摩擦交織而成的網絡。
而「心跳」推翻了世俗的度量衡——疾速之時，是思念；平緩之時，是平靜；而當它止息時——即便止息，那份連結亦未曾斷裂。只是轉換了跳動的形態：潛入記憶，棲於身體，在我們最終長成的模樣裡。
距離可以拉遠，地理可以相隔，甚至生死可以分離。但心跳，證明著『在 』。
「家：心跳是唯一的距離」由香港浸會大學視覺藝術學院（AVA）、創意藝術學院（SCA）及創新服務學習中心聯合呈獻的展覽，由AVA「策展實踐課程」的18位本科生策劃，與本地藝術機構 HART HAUS 及九龍樂善堂合作，匯聚10組藝術家的創作實踐。這些作品源於藝術家與家庭成員之間真實的對話——那些日常中未必言明的情感。
展覽試圖探索家不再僅限於具備物理邊界的實體場所的概念: 家不再僅僅是被再現的主題，而成為一個持續運作的心理容器。它承載的不只是回憶，還有無條件的支持、難以言說的矛盾以及從中所提煉的養分成長。在時間中不斷改寫的歸屬感，引導觀眾在此見證的不再是對「家」的單一定義，而是藝術家如何以各自的方式，回應「家」作為我們生命原點的情感與深度。
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Participating Artists 參展藝術家
Ane Alfeirán
Damian Boylan
Chia Pui Yi 謝貝怡
Leung Man Yuk Yuki 梁曼鈺
Doris Ng 吳玳誼
Sammi Tsui 徐善鈺
Gisèle Tchitchiama
Yip Chak Ho Eros 葉澤豪
FourTin Yeung 楊仟仟
General Visit 公眾參觀
Date日期：19.4 - 25.4.2026 (Tue to Sun 二至日)
Time 時間：11:00 - 18:30
Venue 地點：HART Haus 3/F
Visit by appointment only 敬請預約
