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"Have Fun" A Momentary Sanctuary of Tranquility
Continuing the spirit of the Have Fun series, this final chapter aims to guide travelers in discovering their unique selves and finding ways to coexist with nature during their journeys.
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Where does the well-traveled wanderer finally find a tranquil sanctuary for the soul? This trilogy of exhibitions seeks to address the physical and mental needs of city dwellers. The final chapter guides visitors through the intersection of natural and virtual spaces, exploring light, shadow, and color to uncover the gateway to their inner oasis. Amplify your senses and let the intricacies of daily life form a mosaic, piecing together a tranquil sanctuary where self and nature harmonize.
Introduction of works
Creator / HUANG Mei-Hui
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HUANG Mei-Hui is skilled in working with fiberglass and print. There are Trees is a series of print artworks manifested in a diverse array of bright colors and distinct forms to create a powerful visual imagery. In this work, HUANG Mei-Hui focuses on the two elements of trees and people, illustrating the environment that we live in and the emotional forms that we assume under different circumstances. The technique of paper cutting was employed to print films of different colors assembled in the work, forming interesting relationships that contrast with each other. HUANG Mei-Hui’s works, with wildly diverse characters in powerful poses, lead viewers into a world of fantasies.
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Renowned for her works in fiber and printmaking, Huang Mei-Hui’s art is characterized by vibrant, saturated colors and the use of soft, malleable materials. Her pieces exude sweetness, joy, and vitality, continuously evolving with diverse transformations.
Creator / CHI Peng-Ju
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CHI Peng-Ju used creative artworks as a means to awaken sleeping souls to provide emotional comfort and safe sense of self belonging. Small Days is composed of 15 panels based upon the unique fur texture of the British Shorthair cat. Each panel is composed of different color patches and brushwork, appearing like a diary entry that condenses the feelings of every day. The panels are like puzzle pieces, encouraging visitors to exercise their imagination and build connections, while geometric lines and rough brushstrokes used in the artwork create a spontaneous and unrestrained atmosphere of freedom.
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By day, I am a teacher; by night, I am an animal communicator, artist, and light seeker. I believe one should not be confined by labels or professions, and the same goes for creative pursuits. For me, art not only blends seamlessly into life but life itself is an ongoing act of artistry.
Creator / CHEN YUN
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Diary is a collection of thirty small works that record artist Chen Yun’s observations of a rosemary plant over a period of 30 days. The individual pieces can be displayed together, individually, or in different corners. Chen Yun painted the rosemary every day, but the vase or pot, background, and painting composition varied randomly, depending on her mood that day. Her works generally center on plants, which are usually arranged, but she carefully observes their details from various angles. Here one can even see the rosemary slowly growing new leaves. Chen Yun feels that the creative but repetitive process of carving is a kind of spiritual healing, and after the printing blocks are inked and the paper is removed from it, all of her emotions become three-dimensional, which is fascinating for her.
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Chen Yun, hailing from Chiayi, Taiwan, reignited her passion for printmaking after a four-year hiatus. Now, her tools go beyond carving knives to include pencils, needles, stones, and steel brushes. Moving away from the pursuit of "perfection," her gentle strokes and lines convey the emotional weight of her creations. Through the labor and repetition of printmaking, she engages in a dialogue with paper. After three years of full-time creation, she's ready to take on the world again as a student abroad. “Before turning 30, I want to be reckless and chase dreams.”
Creator / CHEN Yi-Ru
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Eye Plan was inspired by the artist Chen Yi-Ju’s personal experience as a child of being diagnosed with strabismus (“crossed eyes”). The two circular canvases and three vertical long canvases form a facial image of eyes and nose. Strabismus has seriously affected her visual experience and interpersonal relationships, so with her art she expresses the mood that she had as a child, “desperately wishing that my pupils to be like those of ordinary people.” She improvises with Sharpie pens and the “quick-drying” property of acrylic paint, drawing at random and superimposing images. The two eyes in the work are composed of a rich variety of shapes—squares, circles, triangles, moons, flying saucers, etc. When exhibited, a circular beam of light is directed between the circular canvases, thus completing the entire work. Besides viewing the rich variety of detailed images within the circles, you can also sense the relationship between the rays of light and the visual experience provided through the lamp.
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A graduate of the National Kaohsiung Normal University with a M.F.A. degree in Fine Arts, Chen Yi-Ru has been recognized with numerous top honors and awards in national art exhibitions.
Creator / CHEN Sung-Chih
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Artist CHEN Sung-Chih specializes in making creations from frequently neglected materials in life. He transforms the materials into decorative work with strong poetry so that viewers can re-perceive the relationship between the objects and space. In this series, “Untitled 201002 /Untitled201003 /Untitled201004,” CHEN Sung-Chih repeatedly glues on sheets of white paper and remove them from the smooth mirror. Finally, the traces of layers of adhesion and tearing-up have left an illusionary space with the blank and faint image of ink-painting. People can see their image from the mirror when they stand in front of the work. The images are overlapped and infused with the paper for the perception of unison. CHEN Sung-Chih has given life to the objects and created extremely poetic space through the minimum change made to the objects.
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Specializing in multimedia spatial installations, Chen Sung-Chih has participated in prestigious international artist residency programs including the Koganecho Area Management Center in Yokohama, ISCP in New York, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Korea, Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, Visiting Arts London, and The Townhouse Gallery in Cairo. With a background in both design and art, he has devoted himself to cross-media integrated art projects, consistently creating site-specific works and managing various artist publishing projects. Currently, he resides and works in Taichung, Taiwan.
Creator / ZHENG Chong-Xiao
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ZHENG Chong-Xiao’s works focus on themes of humanity, machines, and the environment. The classical landscape paintings of ancient literati are employed to investigate the mutual relationship between the development of civilization and the environment. Ark is based upon the Song Dynasty painting Clear View of Streams and Mountains by Xia Gui, and recreates a modern version of the same landscape in a technologically advanced setting. The painting no longer employs the traditional techniques of wrinkles and ink splashes, while people in traditional attire are nowhere to be found, having been replaced by digitalized landscapes and Pouting Boy. Some of the boys have brought their girlfriends to admire the flowers. Others busy themselves in building an ark with machinery, renewable energy, and flying devices as their tools. ZHENG Chong-Xiao uses this visual transformation and interesting perspective to imagine the various possibilities of balanced technological and ecological progress.
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A dedicated full-time artist from Tucheng, New Taipei City, who works tirelessly throughout the year.
Creator / LIAO Zen-Ping
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Green Mountain by LIAO Zen-Ping depicts a right-turning road, green plain, mountain peak and raging clouds. As we see the mountain is divided in two, the left is bright while it’s gloomy on the right, and the ridge remain clear. Viewers are dragged in to the landscape, contemplating the scenery, near, far, its sound and smell, their own aspirations, tired legs and the swaying wind. Sensations besides vision are happening. Through his works, LIAO Zen-Ping reveals things that are unobservable to the eyes, he focuses on observation through painting, practicing the ways and distances he perceives daily sceneries, and through practice, seems to approach little by little those hard-to-be-noticed, estranging body experiences, memories, and the infinite distances from the world.
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Born in 1982 in New Taipei City, Taiwan, Liao Zenping holds a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from the Taipei National University of the Arts. Having spent many years creating art in residence in Yokohama, Japan, he now lives and works in Taichung.
Creator / HUANG Jing-Jhong
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The artist Huang Jing-Jhong’s use of bamboo charcoal as his main creative medium is closely connected with his family history. In this work, Under a Small Star #1, he was inspired by the poems of the Polish poet Wisława Szymborska. Huang used Italian mosaic techniques, which pay attention to fluid lines, to arrange the bamboo charcoal pieces into a depiction of a river. The broken pieces of charcoal are cemented together to form an undulating landscape on both sides of the river, creating a three-dimensional effect. The bird’s-eye view of the landscape allows viewers to reflect on the tense relationship between people and the natural environment. The circular shape also allows multiple viewing angles. An alternate way of viewing the work is to see it as a plant sending roots into the soil.
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After working as a graphic designer, ceramic painter, basketball illustrator, and head of a public art project company, Huang Jing-Jhong returned to pursue a master’s degree in Fine Arts at Taipei National University of the Arts in 2019, reigniting his artistic passion and career. His work focuses on the transformation of life states after experiencing adversity, starting from observing life’s fading, not concentrating on death or the afterlife but on the power and traces left by life as it confronts trials and tribulations, eventually emerging anew. He uses charcoal extensively in his creations to strip away the material shell, revealing the essence of time, transformation, purification, rebirth, and the unseen flame.
Creator / Tuwak Tuyaw
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Tuwak Tuyaw is an aboriginal artist with both Amis and Kavalan heritage and converts woven fish traps used by the aborigines for catching fish as an element of his artworks so as to preserve and develop the traditional craft. “The Wind Blew Through – Sanku’s Conversion and Flow” presents various Sanku, the woven fish trap of the Kavalan people, created by weaving bamboo and rattan vine. Tuwak made use of the contours and elements of the Sanku as well as the resilient and flexible nature of bamboo to convey the power of winds. The Sanku traps are presented standing straight above a figurative river created by rounded pebbles, building a sensation in which an imaginary cool breeze just blew right past. Tuwak made use of his unique wisdom to revitalize and transform aboriginal fishing tools to re-establish connections and relationships between life, nature, land, and the environment.
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Since 2008, Tuwak Tuyaw has been deeply involved in preserving and innovating the traditional bamboo and rattan weaving techniques of the tribe, drawing inspiration from the coastal and river-based hunting and fishing traditions of the Kavalan people. Using materials like black bamboo and yellow rattan, he designs and crafts Sanku fish traps, transforming them into various lifestyle products and installation art pieces. In recent years, he co-founded the PateRongan Handmade Studio - Light in Texture with fiber artist Chen Shu-Yen and tribal craftsmen in Xinshe, Hualien, aiming to sustain and evolve the traditional crafts of the tribe into new forms of artistic expression.
Creator / Iyo Kacaw
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Iyo Kacaw, from Hualien Makuta'ay, conveys the situation of aborigines in contemporary society and the reflection on environmental issues through creating. In the work, Become a Real Marine People?, the warm wood is connected to each other, stacked in layers, and gradually spreads outward. Several square windows are mixed and submerged within. Iyo Kacaw uses the overlapping wood to depict an image of the rise in sea level due to global warming. He tries to explore the future environment for humans: when faced with drastic climate change, all life, culture and history will sink into the sea. In the end, will the generation that pursues traditional culture become real marine people after witnessing this all?
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Growing up in the Makotaay coastal indigenous village in Hualien, the artist is deeply connected to the ocean, both as a subject of concern and a source of creative inspiration. He assembles driftwood, stones, and even discarded metal wires into fluid, linear structures, creating a unique artistic language. As the founder of Iyo Studio and a prominent figure in the thriving contemporary art scene on Taiwan’s east coast, his nearly two-decade-long career has made him a representative artist of the region.
Creator / TU Pei-Shih
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TU Pei-Shih features stop motion animation and collage as media, to explore issues related to globalization, capitalism and the national politics machine. The Visible Story made of three animation works creates a giant epic scene. 60 renowned historical figures from the world were once deemed invisible due to some reasons, some are cited from the images of classics, and some are the canned information from the internet. The story begins with a stretching exercise in the sunny morning, then the floral landscape of André Bauchant, Wu Liyuge, to the mysterious forest of Henri Rousseau; the whole film presents a cheerful atmosphere in saturated high-chroma tones. TU Pei-Shih's reinterprets the figures who have disappeared in history once through animation, highlighting the significant difference between fictional life and real historical events.
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Born in Miaoli, Taiwan, in 1981, Tu Peih-Shih earned her Master’s degree in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2007. She currently lives and works in Miaoli, where her art continues to evolve, blending local heritage with contemporary artistic flair.