Curator: KAO Chien-Hui
Artists: Ava HSUEH, Juin SHIEH, CHEN Hui-Chiao, LIU Shih-Fen, HUANG Hsiao-Yen, HSU Su-Chen, WU Yun-Feng
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?
The exhibition Unboxing – May the Force Be With You, showcased at Beyond Gallery, holds significant spatial implications. As a location, the Beyond Gallery name inherently points towards discourse concerning aesthetic transformations. Engaging in conceptual deliberations surrounding the everyday and non-routine, material and immaterial, art and non-art, galleries and non-galleries, this exhibition serves not only as an “unboxing” index to female artists over the course of modernization, but also aims to reveal, through the forms of artworks, the translational processes of aesthetic creation beyond personal narratives within their guiding beliefs and artistic practices.
Structured as an inquiry into aesthetic unboxing through visual forms, the exhibition 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 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.( Text by KAO Chien Hui)
Video source: Beyond Gallery
