| Galerie Grand Siecle(Taipei) |
| 1F , 6-1, Lane2 Tai-an St., Taipei 100
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| Director:
Richard Chang |
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| Artists at Art Taipei 2006:Wang Ya-hui |
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| Falling |
| Video Art /
5 mins / 2002 |
“In the dark, around the city, there are objects falling slowly from the sky- from tranquility to rabidity, lunging toward the core, and then freezed.”
Yah-hui had transformed the images from the real world into the digital man-made fantasy. “Falling” is the video work with objects falling down and then moving backward to where they came from. These objects have frozen in the space after falling down with gravity, which represents the energy. In the video, the energy keeps rotating the form of adsorbing and releasing. By moving at the reduplicate trace, objects seems to have a new rule in which the strange feeling has disappeared, and the other kind of reality has begun.
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| Artists at Art Taipei 2006:Chen Yung-hsien
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| Head on the Plate- Grassing |
| Video work /
6 mins / 2001 |
Lao-tse, the poet-philosopher founder of Taoism, wrote on how the five sense detract from our nature. There are five ways in which we lose out original nature: the five colours, notes, smells, tastes and finally the desires and occupations. ‘Head on the Plate' examines this philosophy.
“ In & Out ” concentrates on the tongue – or sense of communication. “ Breathing With Maggots” is about smell in Lao-tse's dictum. “ Unknown Shore ” is an examination of the idea of sight. Finally, the idea of hearing is seen in “Grassing” .
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| Artists at Art Taipei 2006:Huang Hsin-chien
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| The Specimen of Memory - The Lotus City |
Digital Printing, 250 × 100cm , 1 piece
Acrylic slice, 5mm thickness, 20 × 45cm , 21 pieces, double side printing
Aluminum base
2005
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On day, I received a package. Inside the package, there was a strange artifact. It looked like a book, but also looked like a miniature specimen of a city. It was sealed in numerous slices of glasses. Some slices have text on them, and seem to be records about a city. I try to reconstruct what happened to the city from these fragmented words. Because the texts are so sketchy, we have to fill in the missing information with our imagination.
We can not tell you, whether this artifact shall be regard as a creature's biological specimen whose name called "The Lotus City", or it shall be belonged to a city's field research in the discipline of social science. Nevertheless, in Taipei city's raining season, I often sit by the window, study the wind-dry city specimen, and imagine what it would like when it was alive. |
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