Taishin Bank Foundation for Arts and Culture

Comments on the Finalist

This is a large-scale spatial installation, which is static in form but generates powerful expressive dynamics through the "events of a hypothesis."  The work creatively breaks from the formulaic packaging of art, transforming interior space into the external reality of a "construction site."  Spectators grasp the aesthetic movement of the "space" in a succinct and profound manner. Multiple levels of thinking in "Surface‧Aspect‧Container‧Volume" connect urban space, historical memory and man's occupation of natural land.  A deliberately obscured mezzanine exists in the interaction between the "artificial space" and "natural space," suggesting the artist's ingenuous interpretation of the void.  Mixed media like scaffolding, canvas, anti-dust nets, artificial turf and audio installments eliminate the architectural volume, while emphasizing the potential volume of the physical actions and audible elements in the space.  Successful articulation of the artist's concepts results in a solid artistic exposition of spatial phenomenology.  (By Ray-lin TSAI)