Ava Huseh's work "Do the Best II" at Beyond Gallery, courtesy of Beyond Gallery, photo by Ju Chi-Hung.
Beyond Gallery
2F, No.9, Chang An E. Rd., Sec.1, Taipei, Taiwan
Unboxing-May the Force be with You
Date｜05.27-07.27.2024
Veune｜Beyond Gallery
In our era, how do we recognize the practical relationships between creation and non-creation, artworks and non-artworks, materiality and immateriality? Within artistic works, how can we simultaneously look for the translational traces of artists amidst life and art, the spiritual and technical, and the elite and workaday world? -Kao Chien-Hui
Ava Hsueh's works are currently on view with other six artists' in Unboxing-May the Force be with You at Beyond Gallery. The exhibition is curated by Kao Chien-Hui, structuring as an inquiry into aesthetic unboxing through visual forms. The space consists of two distinct components: a solo exhibition titled "Enter Her Studio" and a small joint exhibition titled "Enter Their Transfer Station". "Enter Her Studio" focuses on the materiality of “studio objects” belonging to Ava Hsueh, a female artist born in the 1950s. These objects include oil paint jars, heavy work uniforms worn while painting, and residues from the working environment, condensing the temporal, spatial, and energetic flow within the creative process. Through the materiality of the materials and tools, they reflexively become the artist’s second skin, material evidence of time, and compressed visual expositions of the artist’s creative spirit and energy.
(Excerpt of press release from Beyond Gallery, written by Kao Chien-Hui.)
