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Saturday Saturday
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Dance of the Sword Finger: Loïc Hsiao ─ Works in 40 Years
MoCA Studio
Saturday Saturday
10AM - 6PM
Exhibition
Dance of the Sword Finger: Loïc Hsiao ─ Works in 40 Years
MoCA Studio
EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
2025 / 01 / 17 Fri.
2025 / 05 / 04 Sun.
10:00 - 18:00
Curator
Huang Yen-Ying
Artists
Chiang Chung-Lun
Ho Yen-Yen
Wu Lien-Yin
Li Ting-Huan
Tsui Kuang-Yu
Chen Sung-Chih
Chen Wei-Chen
Chen Wan-Jen
Huang Li-Ying
Huang Hai-Hsin
Huang Xuan
Liao Chien-Chung
Mia Liu
So Yo Hen
Supervisor
Department of Cultural Affairs, Taipei City Government
Organizers
Taipei Culture Foundation
MoCA TAIPEI
Annual Sponsors
THERMOS
Contemporary Art Foundation
Hui-Neng Chi Arts and Culture Foundation
Royal Inn
Annual Sponsor for Appointed Projector
EPSON
Annual Sponsor for Appointed TV/Screen
SONY
Media Cooperation
Radio Taiwan International
Special Thanks
Taipei Municipal Jian Cheng Junior High School
All languages are inherently abstract, though some are more so than others.
—George Orwell
As the foundation for conveying messages, language provides a shared standard that makes our communication relative and enables us to achieve different goals. Because of its high compatibility and a certain degree of universality, language often serves as the dominant instrument for us to describe and interpret the world and the things in it. However, its dominance is transformed in contemporary art into a different indicator for pursuing creativity.
What is it that the body has already felt but language has yet to capture?
The exhibition, No Language, is not a process of portraying how artistic creation opposes the systemic classification of language but instead reveals refractions that show how artists pursue spirituality in materiality, inspiration in interpretation, and transcendence in reality.
In every era, creativity has always struggled. Today, one of the dilemmas we face is an “excess” generated by the highly mediated world. As algorithms cater to our preferences, we have become aware of numerous possibilities, which do not necessarily guarantee more and richer experiences. This is like we are standing in a rock-climbing gym, dressed in brand-new gear, staring absentmindedly at the colorful, towering rock walls. We may discuss the climbing paths that others take and analyze their physical capacities, living their adventures vicariously. While the scent of sweat permeates the air conditioning, the tags on the newly bought activewear remain on the clothes. We are constantly aware of being too slow due to the “excess”; our actions are hindered by hesitation despite the longing to sweat. Somehow, we still hope to microwave our passion in a rush. So, instead of asking questions, we binge-watch, eventually entering an endless loop of being repeatedly splashed by self-imagination and becoming models trained by artificial intelligence (AI).
Through browsing, unconscious navigation transforms into conscious wandering.
We can maybe view the “excess” as a fresh opportunity to create a gaze through browsing, just like creating an AI language model, which approaches the world by inferring connections between things using big data. Although AI makes predictions based on “known” data and differs from art that explores “the unknowable” in the realm of the unknown, it is possible for the “excess” to hold creative potential if a new order could be created within the boundaries of awareness. In this context, art has long been pursuing the “feeling model” that the “language model” fails to deliver. The reason for this lies in the fact that AI aims for efficiency with specific objectives, while art seeks the value of existence—a feeling that remains inherently abstract despite our endless attempts to define it.
Featuring mid-generation and emerging artists in Taiwan, this exhibition represents their achievements in creating resonances in the process of surpassing the mere generation of issue-related criticisms and their intellectual thresholds. It also offers more modest insights compared to the endless accumulation of fieldwork. They assume the position of “the other” in the language system and try to weave the distant unknown, which is always abstract and gives rise to clarity that, in turn, introduces fresh possibilities for universality.
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Huang Yen-Ying was the grant recipient of the Ministry of Culture’s International Exchange Program for Visual Arts Talent in 2009 and 2012, which allowed him to participate in residencies at the ISCP in New York and the Cité internationale des arts in Paris. He has held multiple solo exhibitions and has been featured in numerous group exhibitions both in Taiwan and internationally. Since 2019, he has curated several contemporary and public art exhibitions. His accolades include the 9th Public Art Awards–Art Curating Award and the 8th Public Art Awards–Education Outreach Award, both organized by the Ministry of Culture, and the 2023 Golden Pin Design Award–Integration Design (Curating Division). In recent years, Huang has curated several exhibitions and art events, including New Friends (New Taipei City Art Museum, 2023), 2222 (Chiayi Art Museum, 2022), Taipower Arts Festival – Electri City I and II (2019, 2022), and The Weight of Multiple Universes (MoCA TAIPEI, 2021).
Chen Sung-Chih was born in 1978 in Nantou, Taiwan, and holds an MFA from the Graduate Institute of Plastic Arts at Tainan National University of the Arts. He has participated in international artist residency programs in Cairo, London, Paris, Seoul, New York, and Yokohama. Currently based in Taichung, Taiwan, Chen is a visual artist dedicated to site-specific installation art in Taiwan’s contemporary art scene. His work is known for its diverse materials, complex narrative layers, and meticulous descriptive details, with materials often carrying historical and sometimes contradictory meanings. Over the years, he has received numerous awards, including the Hsiao Chin Creation Award, First Prize at the Louis Vuitton Taipei Art Project, the Li Chun-Shan Visual Art Prize, and recognition as one of the Top 7 Visual Arts Awardees in the Third Taishin Arts Award. He has exhibited in the Wuzhen Contemporary Art Exhibition in China, the Taiwan Biennial, and the PyeongChang Biennale in Korea, with his work showcased at institutions such as the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, the National Art Museum of China, the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Espace Louis Vuitton Taipei, and IT Park Gallery.
Huang Xuan was born in 1995 in Taipei, Taiwan. With most of her works being performance and film, she uses her own body as the material and uses simple but persistent movements as a scale for testing in the environment, exploring many subtle limitations and the operations of routine in daily life. She also focuses on objects and their functions in life to discover their interrelationship with human gestures and images in use and tries to reverse the audience’s perception through misuse.
Huang Xuan’s recent exhibitions include Beta+, MoCA TAIPEI, Taipei (2024); Everyday performing, Chiayi Art Museum, Chiayi (2024); 4th Kirishima Lobby Project Huang Xuan-Around aground, Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima (2023); Mediations Biennale Polska, Spazio Thetis - Arsenale nord - Venezia Palazzina Modelli, Venice/ Zbrojownia Sztuki, Gdańsk (2022).
Opting for an open and free approach to art, the artist reconsiders and reflects on “painting” and “painterliness,” focusing on delving into abstract poetic qualities in the ordinary. Exploring different boundaries through the connection between oneself and sensations, memories, and nature, delicate materiality is applied to express the possibilities of form and medium, with philosophical thoughts on life in the present moment embodied. These artworks seem to come in diverse forms, and by opening up how the genre of painting is conventionally perceived, a distinctive system of drawing is formed and is unbounded by any form of media.
Born and based in Taipei, Ho Yen-Yen graduated from the Master of Fine Arts Program from Taipei National University of the Arts. Drawing inspiration for art from in-the-moment observations of her personal perceptual experiences, Ho also often references popular scientific knowledge as metaphors for psychological states, creating artworks that include spatial installations, videos, sculptures, and paintings. She specializes in using memories and emotions associated with objects to create settings that project a sense of narrative, as she captures the connection or detachment between reality and fiction through reconstructing and observing from a distance at temporal and spatial experiences.
Shortlisted for the Kaohsiung Award (2020), a winner of the Next Art Tainan (2017), and a runner-up of the Taoyuan Contemporary Arts Award (2016), Ho has shown her work in various exhibition spaces, including the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Keelung Museum of Art, Hong-gah Museum, and Jeju 4·3 Peace Park in South Korea.
Chiang Chung-Lun was born in Taichung, Taiwan and currently lives in Tainan. He graduated from the Graduate Institute of Plastic Arts at Tainan National University of the Arts and is an artist who specializes in using a diverse range of creative formats to express his personal history. Often transforming everyday life into creative sources for his art, he facilitates interactions between the ordinary and his creative endeavors.
Wu Lien-Yin was born in 1994 in Tainan, Taiwan and earned his MFA from the Department of Arts and Design at National Tsing Hua University. He currently lives and works in Tainan. Through his sculptures and installations, he emphasizes often-overlooked details in life, capturing the “serendipitous encounters” that spark his imagination. He draws inspiration from these moments, integrating them with his present life experiences to create unique reflections of their combined essence. Wu was nominated for the Taipei Art Awards in 2022 and won the First Prize in Sculpture at the New Taipei City Fine Arts Exhibition in 2023.
Tsui Kuang-Yu has been trying to respond to the adaptation relation between human and the society from a biological point of view. He also attempts to redefine or question the matrix of the institution we inhabit through different actions and experiments that ignore the accustomed norm. His repetitive body experiments accent the absurdity of the social values and reality to which people have grown accustomed.
Tsui Kuang-Yu was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1974. In 1997 he graduated from National Institute of the Arts and has exhibited internationally since, including Venice Biennale, Liverpool Biennale, Werkleitz Biennial, Reina Sofia Museum, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Contour Biennial, Chelsea Art Museum, Mori Museum, and OK Centrum.
In terms of technique, a multi-layered inversion is applied along with the unique properties of the media. Under the influence of these anti-visual principles, a surreal and mysterious spatial ambiance is crafted. Concerning the artist’s choice of materials and substrate, a preference is given to monochromatic or low-color treatments. The silver reflection transmitted by lead on paper, which traditionally focused on depicting the dark sides and shadows of objects, suggests the tone and portrayal. It hints at the presence of light and the direction of its source. In the past, pencil drawings emphasized the dark aspects and shadows of objects to convey tone and depict form. The artist reverses this conventional approach, making light the primary subject in the creative process. The more intense the light source on an object, the greater the amount of lead applied. This approach prompts a discussion about the representation of illusionary spaces on a flat surface in the process of drawing.
So Yo Hen, an art enthusiast, studied at the Graduate Institute of Arts at Tainan National University of the Arts and is currently a member of Your Bros. Filmmaking Group. His creative work spans various mediums, and he approaches it without preconceived notions about what he’s doing.
Chen Wei-Chen was born in 1993 in Taipei, Taiwan and currently lives and works in Taipei. For Chen, the origin of art is contemplated through observations made on everyday materials. Through practice and reconsideration of concepts such as ready-made, appropriation, and classical beauty, trajectories are extended from self-experience, cultural identity and circumstantial consciousness. Attempts are also made to allow materials under the artist’s control to be seen in ways that are different from their usual controlled and disciplined functions, meaning, and referential qualities.
Li Ting-Huan integrates the visually oriented experiences of the body, the material world, and memory, highlighting the blurred lines between everyday life and specific moments of perception. Through this approach, she develops non-everyday narratives that are both public and intimate by focusing on the arrangement of materials and space. Li does not limit herself to specific artistic media or forms, but her primary works currently consist of spatial installations that integrate objects and images. She has received several accolades, including First Prize at the Taoyuan Contemporary Art Award, the Observer Award at the Kaohsiung Awards, and the Selected Award at the Hualien Art Exhibition.
Huang Hai-Hsin was born in Taipei in 1984 and received her BA degree from National Taipei University of Education in 2007. In 2009 she received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Huang composes works that explore the space between humor, tragedy, and horror. Her works delve into the threat of violence and fear in society and the contradictions one encounters in daily life. While often executed in a colorful and lighthearted palette, at their heart, her whimsical narratives express a dark and unique sense of humor.
Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in Taichung, Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, Taipei Cultural Center in New York, and Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art in Israel, Centre Pompidou-Metz, and Le Lieu Unique in Nantes, France. Her paintings are in the permanent collections of the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, White Rabbit Gallery in Sydney, Artbank in Taiwan, UBS Art Collection and Art Gallery of Western Australia and AMMA Foundation in Mexico City. Huang has served as an artist-in-residence at numerous institutions such as ISCP in New York, Vermont Studio Center in the US, Arteles Creative Center in Finland, Pilotenkueche in Leipzig, Germany, and 3331 Arts Chiyoda in Japan. she was recently selected as one of the 2024 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellows.
Chen’s creative practice revolves around capturing the fleeting, fragmented moments of his everyday life through videos and installations. He strives to develop a unique visual vocabulary by combining various elements and digitally collaging them with the precision and detail of realist paintings. In a world where the human body is often reduced to codes, decontextualized, and flattened by the digital environment, Chen portrays time as alienated and mechanical, bringing a sense of distance to the objects in his works. This approach creates an oscillation between reality and illusion, where his images reflect both his concerns and critiques of modern existence.
Liao Chien-Chung was born in 1972 in Taipei, Taiwan and graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at Taipei University of the Arts. He is known for creating models that mimic the appearances of various objects, using them as a means to address contemporary life’s predicaments and challenges. Liao has held solo exhibitions at several venues, including Eslite Gallery, IT Park, Double Square Gallery, VT Artsalon in Taipei, Absolute Space of the Art in Tainan, and Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art in Nantou. Additionally, he has also been featured in group exhibitions at numerous art institutions, such as the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, MoCA TAIPEI, New Taipei City Museum, Chimei Museum in Tainan, and the Pier-2 Art Center in Kaohsiung. He has conducted artist residencies at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris and the Glenfiddich Distillery in Scotland. His large-scale installations are part of collections at the White Rabbit Contemporary Chinese Art Collection in Australia, Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts, and National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. He currently lives and works in his studio in Duchuantou, Bali District, New Taipei City.
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