Zhang Peili, Alfredo Jaar, David Horvitz: Like Another Time, in the Same Place

Hua International is pleased to announce Like Another Time, in the Same Place, an exhibition by Zhang Peili, Alfredo Jaarand and David Horvitz, presented on the occasion of Art Weekend Berlin 2026, opening on Friday, 10 September, at our Berlin space.

The exhibition title is a line spoken by a woman describing the sound of the sea. In Samuel Beckett’s Embers, written for radio in 1959, Henry sits at the edge of the water, talking so as not to hear it. He cannot enter it and he cannot leave. Ada, beside him, listens: “It is like an old sound I used to hear. It is like another time, in the same place.” She is not describing water. She is describing the way time returns, not remembered exactly, not recovered, but arriving again, altered, inside the present. Radio is the right medium for such a sentence. A broadcast is always a signal sent from one time and arriving in another. The works in this exhibition behave this way. They repeat, drift, withhold, and return.

Near the end of Embers, Ada remembers the sea being rough once, the spray flying over them. Strange it should have been rough then, she says. And calm now. The exhibition lives inside that sentence: between rough then and calm now, between the event and its long afterlife, between a sound and the times it carries. The sea continues underneath the voices, and after they stop.