Guan Wei migrated to Australia in 1990. Over his substantial career he has skilfully woven together his personal experience with both Chinese and Australian culture. The artist shouts, “ACTION,” and red curtains unveil GUAN WEI’s latest major work No Chinese Whispers (2023). Guan Wei delivers a gripping narrative in ten parts, creating a sensation akin to witnessing the climaxes of multiple films simultaneously. The characters, plot and conclusions remain shrouded in mystery, but the intensity of the action captivates the audience. In his new paintings, Guan Wei conjures a realm of speculative time-travel, drawing inspiration from the dynamic nature of the digital age. According to Guan Wei, our world is in a state of dissolution, which allows us to “enter the past, present and future arbitrarily on the time axis where multiple time-spaces can coexist”. Fluidity of Time and Space imagines multiple “folded” scenes where history is artificially compressed, gathering moments from different points in time as if they were flowers in a single bouquet. Images courtesy the artist and ARC ONE.