Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing presents Prayers to Fornax: Science, Technology, and Spirituality, the first exhibition of Hyundai Blue Prize+ 2025, on view from July 18 through December 13, 2026. Curated by Yifeng Wei & Penny Dan Xu, one of the two final awardee collectives of Hyundai Blue Prize+ 2025, the exhibition brings together eight international artists and collectives, inviting audiences to consider the intersection of rational inquiry, technological systems and spiritual imagination.
Prayers to Fornax: Science, Technology, and Spirituality invites audiences into a ritual of bridging the realms of rationality and spirituality. Fornax, meaning “laboratory stove” or “furnace,” is a constellation in the southern hemisphere named by French astronomer Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille in 1756. Its scientific naming marked a historical shift toward a new ordering of the sky, one shaped as much by belief and imagination as by observation. This exhibition explores this intersection of rational inquiry and esoteric belief.
026年7月17日，北京——现代汽车文化中心（北京）呈现Hyundai Blue Prize+ 2025首个获奖展《天炉座的祈祷者：科学、技术与灵性》，展览将于2026年7月18日至12月13日对公众开放。展览由Hyundai Blue Prize+ 2025获奖组合之一魏逸丰与徐小丹联合策划，汇聚了八位（组）来自世界各地的艺术家及艺术团体，邀请观众共同探讨理性探究、技术系统与灵性想象之间的交汇地带。
作为Hyundai Blue Prize+ 2025的首个获奖展，《天炉座的祈祷者：科学、技术与灵性》邀请观众进入一场连接理性与灵性领域的仪式。“天炉座”（Fornax）意为“实验炉”或“熔炉”，是法国天文学家尼古拉斯-路易·德·拉凯勒（Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille）于1756年命名的一个南半球星座。其科学命名标志着人类重新组织和理解天空的一次历史性转变——新秩序的形成不仅源于观测，也同样形塑于信仰与想象。本次展览即致力于探索理性探究与神秘信念的交汇地带。
The exhibition is structured around three interrelated lines of inquiry: searching for meaning that lies beyond the reach of science, through June Balthazard and Pierre Pauze’s Mass (2020) and Chen Zhe’s Celestial-cranial Instrument series (2022-2023); uncovering knowledge buried in the land, through Natasha Tontey’s Of Other Tomorrows Never Known (2023) and Riar Rizaldi’s Tellurian Drama (2020); and scanning the cosmos for signs, through Zach Blas’s Metric Mysticism: A Troll’s Tale (2022), Nolan Oswald Dennis’s Black Liberation Zodiac: Whale-mouth Solidarities (2026), Haroon Mirza’s Cymatic Ceremony (2024), and Suzanne Treister’s HEXEN 5.0(2023-2025), examining whether shamanism, folklore, and mysticism might offer new ways of perceiving, opening onto a broader constellation of understanding the world we inhabit.
展览围绕三条彼此关联的研究线索展开：通过琼·巴尔塔扎德（June Balthazard）与皮埃尔·波兹（Pierre Pauze）的《质量/弥撒》（2020）以及陈哲的《星骨仪》系列（2022–2023），探索科学所无法触及的意义世界；通过娜塔莎·通蒂（Natasha Tontey）的《未知的明日》（2023）和里亚·利沙迪（Riar Rizaldi）的《大地物语》（2020），发掘埋藏于土地之中的知识与记忆；以及，借由扎克·布拉斯（Zach Blas）的《计量神秘主义：巨怪的故事》（2022）、诺兰·奥斯瓦尔德·丹尼斯（Nolan Oswald Dennis）的《黑人解放星座：鲸口团结体》（2026）、哈龙·米尔扎（Haroon Mirza）的《音流庆典》（2024），以及苏珊·特雷斯特（Suzanne Treister）的《HEXEN 5.0》（2023–2025），扫描宇宙中的各种迹象，并审视萨满传统、民间传说与神秘主义是否能够提供新的感知方式，为我们理解世界开启更广阔的视野。
“We are thrilled to present this exhibition, which invites audiences into a transformative experience that bridges different forms of knowledge. Moving between science and spirituality, the exhibition searches for futures that no single worldview can see alone.” said curators Yifeng Wei & Penny Dan Xu.
Hyundai Blue Prize+, an initiative led by Hyundai Motor Company, serves as a laboratory for the evolving role of curators, encouraging exploration of pressing contemporary issues through the diverse contexts of Asia. Building on Hyundai Blue Prize Art + Tech in China and Hyundai Blue Prize Design in Korea, the initiative evolved into Hyundai Blue Prize+ in 2025, expanding its scope to foster interdisciplinary research and transcultural conversations. The Hyundai Blue Prize+ 2025 open call received more than 160 exhibition proposals, from which two curatorial collectives were selected as final awardees.
“We are delighted to present Hyundai Blue Prize+, a newly evolved iteration of the Hyundai Blue Prize, through its inaugural exhibition at Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing. Bringing together science, technology, and spirituality, the exhibition, curated by Yifeng Wei and Penny Dan Xu, invites audiences to encounter new perspectives and reflect on how technology shapes the world we inhabit,” said DooEun Choi, Art Director of Hyundai Motor Company.
策展人魏逸丰与徐小丹表示：“我们非常高兴呈现此次展览，它邀请观众进入一段充满转化力量的体验，在不同的知识体系之间搭建联系。在科学与灵性之间穿行，展览试图寻找那些任何单一世界观都无法独自看见的未来。”
现代汽车艺术总监崔斗银表示：“我们很高兴通过现代汽车文化中心（北京）呈现Hyundai Blue Prize的新的篇章——Hyundai Blue Prize+的首个获奖展览。展览由魏逸丰与徐小丹联合策展，汇集了科学、技术与灵性等多重领域，邀请观众探索新的视角并思考技术如何塑造我们所身处的世界”。
