To let something settle is to place a painting, but also to place a memory. Hanging a painting may appear simple, yet it is never easy. Much like organizing an exhibition of paintings, the process feels familiar each time, yet always renewed.

Taking the act of hanging a painting as a point of departure, the artist approaches the exhibition through the concept of "Composing Paintings." The arrangement of works involves overlapping, symmetry and displacement. Their modes of suspension respond to the architectural structure of the exhibition space, as well as to the relationships between the material presence and illusion within each work.

The vertical axis explores the shifting relationship between materiality and illusion—foreground and background, pigment and object, painting and space. The horizontal axis examines how illusion connects different spatial elements, where pictorial imagery links separate works across the gallery. The intersection of vertical and horizontal structures synthesizes perception across illusion, materiality and spatial experience. Through symbolic arrangements, light and text, the installation constructs a perceptual environment that reveals the narrative and spiritual dimensions embedded within the works.

In this exhibition, LU Chia-Nuoh regards the gallery space as a container, while the physical forms of the paintings are placed within it. Hanging a painting becomes an act of composition within space, ultimately presenting a fusion between painting and its environment. By emphasizing the sides of the works and their compositional relationships, the exhibition alters the viewer's way of seeing painting. Materiality guides shifts in viewpoint and bodily movement, allowing perception to extend beyond the interior of the work toward the surrounding space.

The exhibition design reflects the artist's creative trajectory in recent years—from purely abstract painting toward a mode of thinking that incorporates an awareness of installation. The works intertwine academic research with personal life experience, forming a layered exploration of perception, memory and space.