When walking upright becomes a habit, perhaps it is time to try standing on one’s head. Emerging artist Kai-Jen Chen’s exhibition "Life Inverted" breaks conventional norms, illuminating life with humor.

The "Inverted Man" embodies an attitude of laughing through life. Through the artist’s whimsical ideas, one can view the joys and sorrows of existence from an inverted perspective, finding humor in every moment.

Emerging artist Chih-Kai Lu reinterprets the mundane through his unique perspective. By infusing everyday objects with humor and subtle wit, he disrupts traditional ways of seeing.

These works act as fantastic miniatures, reassembling fragments of daily life to imbue familiar scenes with novelty and the power to challenge common sense.

Featuring the works Vandering and Landing, the exhibition space feels like a step into a bizarre everyday world, drawing viewers to examine the many facets of life through a lighthearted and humorous lens.

"Vandering" Single-channel video installation, color/sound, loop, 4 min 23 sec
In Chinese, removing the "water" radical from the character for "swimming" (游泳) leaves the pronunciation unchanged. However, "swimming" (斿永) in a waterless pool evokes a profound sense of surreal strangeness and a collision within one’s psychological state.
Vandering (Nobody, but my body) becomes an intersection of a semi-dysfunctional public space and personal intent within linear time. Imagining how to swim normally in a dry pool, one enters a space filled with water stains, footprints, and broken dust, unfolding various bodily postures to bestow a new form of life upon the semi-abandoned pool.

"Landing" Single-channel video installation, color/sound, loop, 2 min 30 sec
Drawing on concepts of mimicry and evolutionary psychology, I dress up to enter the social world of birds, documenting my bodily behavior in that space through single-channel aerial video. Placing myself within a seemingly rational and harmonious natural scene is viewed as an intrusion and challenge to a different species; the visual focus of white dots scattered across the greenery drifts on the threshold between the eerie and the aesthetic. From another perspective, the drone acts as a modern digital eye, its mechanical flight echoing the wings of birds. Overlooking with a "bird-like yet non-bird" posture, the camera moves from far to near with overlapping images, creating an atmosphere of optical illusion that gradually reveals the reality of "my presence within."

Ultimately, even standing inches away from the flock, mutual understanding remains impossible, and the inherent alienation between us cannot be eliminated. This work discusses such contradictory relationships, even constructing a strange mode of interaction and viewing experience.