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Library Exhibitions and Events: Spiritual Wellbeing

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Spiritual Wellbeing: Urban Meditation as Encounters with Universal Spheres in Taiwan

Curator

Dr Yu-Shan Tseng, Research Fellow (Anniversary Fellowship) ELS

 

On display from

Monday 3rd June 2025 - Wednesday 25th June 2025

Location

Level 4 Gallery in Hartley Library

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About

As mental health becomes an increasing global concern, this exhibition explores how spiritual dimensions offer an alternative, transcendent understanding of wellbeing. Spiritual wellbeing is a journey in which one’s wounds, pain, or trauma are held – and becoming healed – within the universal spheres present in imagination, urban nature and built environments. Encountering such spheres – often through meditation – is essential for the cathartic release of past and present trauma to foster a harmonious life that transcends notions of good and bad, loss and gain, birth and death. 

The exhibition showcases 18 drawings of urban meditation, created by anonymous individuals living with mental health conditions in Taiwan. Each work captures moments of encounter as the artists tune into their spiritual beings that meet with the universal present through sound, imagination and bodily movement.