schmick contemporary


Urban Oasis
Bonnie Huang
15/08/2025 - 14/09/2025 ST3P INT0

4N URB4N 04S1S

A new wellness destination has arrived.

Escape the concrete jungle and be welcomed into a haven of vitality, rejuvenation and recovery.

Urban Oasis explores the intersections between wellness culture, brainrot doomscrolling, and the gallery opening as a social ritual– where all through lines lead to our desire for intimacy, connection, and a feeling of wholeness.

This Urban Oasis is a site-specific installation dedicated to questioning how one nurtures body, mind and soul.

- Bonnie Huang
"The most optimal and authentic version of ourselves lost to the perils of modern life is being packaged and sold back to us. Can’t afford it? Repeat these daily affirmations to manifest flawlessness. Rather than selling you a treatment, Bonnie invites you to soak in the collective ritual of the art gallery, spotlighting the similarities of community gathering and collective ideas shared at openings, to the environment of a sauna."

                                                                                                                              - Lucy Brosnan







Sensory Advisory: This exhibition features low lighting, fragrance, and a warm temperature due to in-gallery heaters. These conditions may affect visitors with light, respiratory, or heat sensitivities. Please email or speak with a Schmick board member to arrange adjustments for access needs.
Curated by Lucy  Brosnanhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZZRVZSzYsdlYR4kh2-iNtDTBUT6yWnPc/view

Schmick Contemporary acknowledges the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation upon whose unceded lands we live and work.
We pay our respects to elders past, present and emerging.


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