
Grey with a Glimmer: 38 Artists Deliver a “Grey Manifesto” in London
In an age defined by over-stimulation and fragmentation, the exhibition Grey with a Glimmer turns toward the subtle — toward the suspended states where clarity dissolves and perception quietly expands. Presented by Arklink at Indra Gallery in London, from the 7th to the 10th of November 2025, the exhibition brings together 38 emerging artists working across painting, moving image, installation, photography, sculpture, and book art. Collectively, they explore how contemporary existence oscillates between shadow and glimmer, stillness and emergence, illusion and reflection. Curated by Yiwen Fu and Chengming Xing, the exhibition opened to an audience of more than two hundred visitors, transforming the gallery into a field of dialogue and contemplation. Grey has become the undertone of modern life — a soft haze that mirrors dulled senses and lives held in suspension. Yet within this muted atmosphere, moments of light break through. This illumination is not a grand redemption, but what Walter Benjamin termed Jetztzeit — a sudden glimmer disrupting linear time, magnifying an instant’s significance and offering new perspectives. Grey with a Glimmer is built on this tension: between stillness and illumination, between the grey that conceals and the glimmer that reveals. Grey signifies not absence but a generative


















