Artists│
NI Tsai-Chin, LEE Ming-Tse, HUANG Fa-Cheng, KUAN Meng-Hsuan, CHANG Teng-Yuan, CHANG En-Tzu, LIN Pei-Yin, LIN Ching-Fang, Walking Grass Agriculture, CHANG Chih-Chung, JUAN Yung-Han, Ding Pao-Yen, Chang Cheng-Chun 


“Grabbing the eye” may well be the most pervasive symptom of our time, pronouncing our immersion in a global visual landscape shaped by the interplay of seeing and being seen. It is precisely this condition that marks the conceptual entry point of Art of Kaohsiung 2025: Fables of the Eye Ball Generation. Anchored in the so-called “Eye Ball Generation,” particularly  those born after the 1980s, the exhibition invites reflection on how Kaohsiung-based artists, themselves as digital natives, respond to this visual wave through their artistic practices and explores the stylistic convergence of anime, comics, and games (collectively referred to here as ACG) as a mode of observation. At the same time, works by senior artists Ni Tsai-Chin and Lee Ming-Tse are thoughtfully included to “hold the fort,” lending their presence as anchoring forces. Their inclusion creates a polyphonic, cross-generational resonance throughout the exhibition.
 
        A total of thirteen artist groups have been invited to participate—Chang Teng-Yuan, Huang Fa-Cheng, Ding Pao-Yen, Kuan Meng-Hsuan, Chang En-Tzu, Lin Ching-Fang, Lin Pei-Ying, Lee Ming-Tse, Ni Tsai-Chin, Chang Chih-Chung, the art collective Walking Grass Agriculture (Liu Hsing-Yu and Chen Han-Sheng), Chang Cheng-Chun, and Juan Yung-Han (listed in exhibition order)—their works unfolding within labyrinth-like gallery spaces. Three sets of keywords offer suggested routes for viewing: “Sci-Fi Anxiety and Contemporary Apocalyptic Allegories,” “Polyphonic Clamor ↔ Intimate Terrains,” and “Local Consciousness Mediated Through ■■.” They are intended to open up entry points into the context of the works, illuminating the interstice between the real and the virtual, the flood of imagery oversaturating the collective unconscious, and the internal transformation by artists, as well as those practices and challenges posed by them when ACG forms—media deeply embedded in popular culture—become modes of creation.
 
        Invitations are extended to those long attuned to familiar visual lexicons and habits of seeing, those who would like to encounter unfamiliar bodies and grounded experiences, and to step into the visual fables that have grown forth, rhizome-like, from within.




Supervisor│Bureau of Cultural Affairs, Kaohsiung City Government
Organizer│ Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts
Cooperated with│Kaohsiung Public Library International Picture Book Center, Kaohsiung American School