opencall

This is a show for works that didn’t make it—because they were “too anime,” “not refined enough,” or just “not what we’re looking for.”

Some were rejected without any reason.

Some were picked apart by professors or curators.

Some never left the hard drive because their creators already knew how they’d be received.

But these works still exist. And we think they deserve to be seen.

We’re not here to correct or redeem them.

We just want to give them a space they weren’t given elsewhere.

If your work has been turned away too many times, or never felt like it belonged—

You’re invited.

Eligibility: Artists at any stage in their career are encouraged to apply.

Independent & Image Art Space (Chongqing, China) is happy to announce a group art exhibition open call "Time Folded".

Time doesn’t always move forward. It loops, stretches, overlaps—and sometimes, it folds.
We invite artists from all disciplines to explore the visual possibilities of nonlinear time: memories that resurface, futures imagined in fragments, histories layered with the now.
This exhibition seeks works that embody the cyclical, fragmented, and simultaneous experience of time. Whether abstract or narrative, conceptual or emotional, we are looking for images or videos that reflect time as an unfolding process—not a fixed line.