[1] 〈沈默之間〉展覽是一場延伸與跨越三年之久的計畫，其討論與籌備因各種原因走走停停， 終於在2021年底疫情仍在嚴峻的階段中，於高雄市立美術館展出。

 

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Amongst the Silence
 
Exhibition Venue: Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Art, Gallery 101-103
Period: 2021.12.18 (Sat.) - 2022.04.10 (Sun.)

The project of Amongst the Silence aims to explore the possibilities of artworks becoming individual responses and connecting issues of multiple eras, while finding approaches to form values and viewpoints for ourselves. From 2021, it has been challenging for all countries to combat COVID-19. Besides various policies and public health regulations, every government in the world has to find a way for people to adjust their lifestyles to the pandemic. Being restricted, many people also wonder how to go beyond the existing physical boundaries of time and space, expressing their opinions and messages via technologies. Strategies and resistance have always been ways for people to construct self identities and show social values of the time. They are stances people take when facing various social and political conditions. Reflecting this, many contemporary artworks have created spaces for us to think of and explore our current positions and present issues, while remaining open for interpretation.
 
The exhibition takes the concept of Polish artist Józef Robakowski ‘s “personal cinema” as a core and a beginning, they can be taken as self metaphors and archives, or evidences of current stands that can be reviewed in the future. Five major themes following will be discussed in different aspects. With political and social changes at the moment, the project of Amongst the Silence wants to actively determine the status of “silence” in today’s society and culture. Starting from public spheres of our daily lives and experiences, many artworks in this exhibition discuss the discursive formation set up by aspects of urban spaces, mass media, archives and regimes/institutions, and the silent gaps hidden in them. How should contemporary art adopt numerous forms of art making to open up possibilities to think, explore, construct and reimagine things? How can contemporary art therefore produce languages and structures that can go beyond politics, to build knowledge and strategies for resistance, and to create a kind of reflective thinking? At the same time, how can art serve as shelter with multiple layers of meanings in such public spheres, allowing silenced voices to be told, communicated and understood there, to form connections on new levels with our society and culture?
 

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指導單位：高雄市政府文化局
共同主辦：高雄市立美術館、草埕文化藝術工作室
贊助單位：財團法人國家文化藝術基金會、東和鋼鐵企業股份有限公司
協力單位：奧地利台北辦事處、Project Foundation、Lokal Gallery、Yuka Tsuruno Gallery、公共電視台
Supervisor: Bureau of Cultural Affairs Kaohsiung City Government
Organizer: Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts (KMFA),  Art Square Taiwan
Sponsor: National Culture and Arts Foundation, Tung Ho Steel Enterprise Corporation: Austrian Office Taipei, Project Foundation, Lokal Gallery, Yuki Gallery,  PTS Taiwan