前往应许之地

Throughout the long arc of human history, “departure” has never been merely a movement through space. It is a recurring structure: leaving, wandering, losing, being called, and returning.

From the long homeward journey of Odysseus in ancient Greek epic, to Moses leading his people across the wilderness in the Bible, humanity has always oscillated between two forces—a longing for the unknown, and an attachment to origin.

When this ancient narrative is projected onto the scale of the cosmos, “distance” becomes, for the first time, the physical reality of deep space, and the “Promised Land” is translated from myth and faith into a set of coordinates not yet reached.

In Toward the Promised Land, the artist juxtaposes the modern project of space exploration with humanity’s oldest archetypes: epic, religion, migration, and exile. Rockets, cabins, and orbital trajectories no longer function merely as symbols of technology, but as components of a new myth-making apparatus—one that carries forward the same enduring questions: Why do we depart? Where are we going? And do we still remember the way home?

Human exploration has never been a linear expansion, but a circular motion. The farther we travel, the more urgently we are compelled to ask an older question: Where do we come from, and where do we return?

Perhaps every journey into the stars is, in essence, an odyssey. And the so-called “Promised Land” does not lie at the far edge of the universe, but along a path stretched to infinity—a path that has never truly been severed: the way home.