The Prelude Exhibition of The First Shanghai Graphic Design Biennale – TopoPoster: International Poster Design Exhibition, after six months (June – December, 2025) of planning and preparation, was successfully held from December 13 to December 22, 2025. As one of the larger-scale exhibitions in recent years featuring an international selection of works in China, it showcased over 300 representative poster designs from 153 influential contemporary designers and studios active in the forefront of the field across 28 countries.
Unconditioned World
Unconditioned World Timeless, Placeless; Here, nothing stands at the center, and no meaning remains at the edge. The Unconditioned World is freed from determinations; It begins nowhere and ends nowhere. Time collapses into continuity; space folds into the relations and echoes that shape it. What connects us is not a shared language, but our passage through languages not a common territory, but our intersections within space. Topology replaces geometry; the world is defined not by distance, but by shifting proximity. The world is composed of differences, not sameness and within this timeless, placeless state, we dwell in a moment still becoming.
Omid Nemalhabib
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