In the world that is currently under the influence of a global pandemic, human activities were directed into the next chapter, one that restricts our physical body, where various challenges arise in everyday life and work, and technological links replace interpersonal relationships. When everyday life gradually merges into the virtual realm that becomes data and traffic without an expiration date, and many communities becoming exceptions inside and outside the network began to take shape. Are these declarations showing that our daily life has expired? And when every day becomes an idling vision of the future, is the city still the place where dreams gather?

2021 Zhongshan Hao Rong Yi takes this “Outdated Daily” as the main theme, discussing people and life after the pandemic: a city is a place where issues of publicity are deliberated, and did the spread of viruses and information cause various groups and mixed communities to develop a varying appearance? How should we understand and recognize the mutated daily life, and at the same time reimagine and respond through art?