Sudden Places
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
January 16 – July 6, 2025
Sudden Places is Pan Daijing’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States. The exhibition unfolds across a series of works of moving image, sound, sculpture, and painting embedded within an altered landscape. Informed by performance, Sudden Places transforms the architecture of the Burnet Gallery into a dark terrain of shifting scale and breaking thresholds.
At the core is the film work The Hour Between Dog and Wolf (2021–2024), a film built from years of collected encounters across Hong Kong. Scale Figures (2023/25) reappears as a sonic and sculptural composition carried by voice in different parts of the museum. The exhibition also includes two large-scale paintings embedded in the gallery’s architecture, as well as other moving image, photographic, and architectural interventions threaded throughout the space.
Each element in Sudden Places lives within a larger choreography of sound, light, and spatial tension.