On March 21, 2026, the solo exhibition How to Imagine a River by He River officially opened, presented by BOUNDED SPACE, with curators Pang Yujing and Sun Yuhang. The exhibition presents the artist's material imagination of nature using textiles as a medium.

For River, imagination can traverse culture, matter, and emotion, while weaving serves as the connection between imagination, material, and body. Proceeding from different stages of her life, River He engages her body, spirit, and memory as perceptual tools, capturing natural elements—Water, Fire, Wood, Earth—through the lens. Using the Thread Controller 2 produced by Tronrud Engineering, she translates these images into the language of weaving. These textiles are not merely extensions of visual imagery but also tactile vessels of memory. The body remains the intermediary of perception, while fiber becomes a structure of time, carrying the artist’s re-creation of natural forms and her translation of bodily experience.

The exhibition unfolds around the four natural elements of water, fire, wood, and earth, which interweave across materials within the space. Meanwhile, the artist's English name "River" forms a pun with the exhibition title. This exhibition invites viewers to contemplate: Does imagination have boundaries? Can imagination be constrained by material forms? And how does our way of understanding the world shape the paths of imagination?