In this post-digital era, our memories of growing up online are being rediscovered and reinterpreted in entirely new ways. *Digital Relics of Innocence* serves as a form of "digital archaeology," excavating the online visual memories of the generations born in the 90s and 2000s.

The exhibition transports you back to a digital realm defined by its sense of freedom and eclectic chaos; from Y2K-style web design and Tumblr culture to the personal homepages of the early blogging era. It explores how the internet has shaped, preserved, and continuously reconstructed the visual symbols and emotional experiences of that bygone digital age.

Through the use of dolls, anime characters, virtual personas, and low-resolution, compressed, or distorted imagery, the exhibited works construct an emotional archive that straddles the line between reality and the virtual. Each image here carries a sense of nostalgia—refined and remade time and again; hazy and melancholic, yet strikingly real.

*Digital Relics of Innocence* seeks to piece together visual fragments scattered across the depths of the internet, transforming them into a contemporary archive—one that can be viewed, perceived, and discussed. The exhibition explores how growing up in a digital environment has shaped the aesthetics, emotions, and identities of an entire generation, inviting the audience to reflect: as reality and the virtual realm increasingly intertwine, how do we come to understand our own existence and that of others?

Those images that reside in your heart, those images that bring moments of transcendence. I long believed that I was endowed with some meaning beyond myself. So I carved messages on the inside of the corridor walls; messages that were false. I happily stepped over broken glass, like a harmless celebration. Then, in another corridor connected to your heart, we placed a darkness. A darkness that yearned to engulf us. It celebrated time stretched flat, celebrated the spiraling, unfolding concentric circle. It pierced through some boundary to come before us, reading our destiny, endlessly repeating, without ceasing.


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