Perception of Places——Essential Collections 2019-2020

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Perception of Places——Essential Collections 2019-2020

2021.12.25 - 2022.03.27 KMFA Gallery 104

As a thematic exhibition based on the museum’s collections, the exhibition is entitled “Perception of Places” in an attempt to start from the theme of “people and places.” On the three levels of “nature and culture,” “re-interpretation of materials,” and “diaspora,” the exhibition describes the network of people and places, discusses the issues related to land from Kaohsiung to Taiwan, and develops the cultural axes of the museum’s essential collections under the policy of “South Plus.”

The landscape works by Lin Hsin-yueh, Liu Chi-hsiang, Liu Keng-i, Lee Jiun-shyan, and Rahic Talif manifest that people perceive and understand the existence of themselves under the natural conditions of climate, landscape, sea, ocean current, etc. Continuing these pursuit of the texture of land, Lin Hong-wen, from the process of personally walking in Tainan city, experiences the nature and culture of this place and paints with the light building material—sisal powder. After returning to Taiwan from Spain, Yeh Chu-sheng concerns with the environmental destruction caused by economic development, and he assembles natural materials on his paintings to demonstrate his reflections on modernist painterly quality. Hsu Yung-hsu creates the contemporaryity of crafts through his bodily intervention with physical labor and dialogues with space. These artists’ works stressing the expressions of materials provide another approach to the perception of land and environment. Finally, the video of the migrant workers singing at Kaohsiung harbor by Charwei Tsai, the images of foreign brides by Lulu Shur-tzy Hou, and the family images collaged with tiles by Chen Shun-chu, who was born in Penghu and had lived in Taipei for about half his life, show their concerns about the concepts of “home” and “diaspora.” When people move because of economy, marriage, and education, their physical experiences and memories wander between the hometown and the place of migration, from which a fluid vision of blurred national boundaries is revealed. In addition, a potential trend of heterogeneity and anti-centrism will be formed, bringing the possibility of multiple identities. In the exhibition, “place” is regarded as a kind of idea/concept, as well as a way of existing. Based on the elements of visible landscapes, the sense of time attached to places, etc., this exhibition attempts to depict a conceptual picture about understanding and perceiving the south.

Artists
Lee Ming-tse, Lee Jiun-shyan, Lin Hsin-yueh, Lin Hong-wen, Rahic Talif, Hung Ken-shen, Lulu Shur-tzy Hou, Hsu Yung-hsu, Chen Shun-chu, Yeh Chu-sheng, Yannick Dauby, Charwei Tsai & Tsering Tashi Gyalthang, Liu Chi-hsiang, Liu Keng-i, Jun T. Lai

Supporter｜Bureau of Cultural Affairs, Kaohsiung City Government
Organizer｜Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts
Curator｜Chen Yen-ching
Exhibition Designer｜Kuo Feng-ju
Graphic Designer｜Dawn Creative Arts

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Perception of Places——Essential Collections 2019-2020

Upcoming│CAPTURING THE MOMENT

South as a Place of Changes: Kaohsiung Art Voice from 1970s to 1990s

Stream of Forms: LIANG Jen-hung Solo Exhibition