Ava Hsueh is participating in the group exhibition “Enclave: An Autobiography” at Taipei Fine Arts Museum.: Artist News

Date｜10.05-12.15.2024

 

 

The exhibition is curated by the curator Kat Siao and focuses specifically on female artists’ works in Taipei Fine Arts Museum’s collection, invoking the metaphor of “enclave” to represent a creator's inner world, indicating a safe haven for consciousness, a space which can be shielded autonomously, so that the creator can maintain inner peace and steadfastness in the face of external interventions or emotional fluctuations. The exhibition mirrors the rich inner worlds and diverse life experiences expressed in women's art, extending the common autobiographical narrative in literature to convey the context and life concerns of artists across different stages of their lives.

 

The work Center and Edge (1995) by Ava Hsueh, as a female artist having spent a long period of time abroad, presenting issues concerning gender and cultural differences. Hsueh has become more philosophical after an operation in 2009. She created an art series of adding nine dots in the composition in 2010, such as the work Originate (2010), the process of drawing circles by hand entails serenity and concentration of the body and mind. The other work Moving Light (2018) was made by black and white as the base colors, with some added colors like red, green, and other. Based on the rules of multipoint perspective, this work exhibits a pathos of vigorous tension and complex spatio-temporal dimensions.