- Date 2025.09.08
- Venue 1F Lobby of TS Holding
YANG Chi-Chuan─Where A River Runs by
◌ Date│2025.9.8 - 10.17（9 am – 7 pm, Mon - Fri）
◌ Venue│1F Lobby of TS Holding
▌Artwork Introduction
Where a River Runs by continues YANG Chi-Chuan’s exploration of memory and storytelling by incorporating handcrafted ceramics into her recent work, giving tangible forms to intangible stories and inexpressible feelings. Yang enjoys observing everyday scenes, from which she derives a sense of self-healing, often sharing fragments of memory, sometimes with sound, sometimes without.
This exhibition features Turning into Autumn, inspired by hiking through deciduous forests in the mountains, and Things Turn into Stones, Stones Turn into Sand, an allegorical piece made from coral bones and plastic debris commonly found by the sea, along with a newly crafted small wind chime. The artist uses permeable structures shaped like doors and screens to display these suspended artworks while introducing new forms and viewing perspectives. The arrangement guides the audience through five sensory segments and experiences by a riverbank—leaves falling near the water, stones resting among ripples, dust floating in sunlight, flowers and trees swaying in the breeze—shown from close and distant viewpoints to depict moments of walking along a river.
Where A River Runs by, Stainless steel, aluminum, chains, pottery, artificial Stones, and sand, 2025
Where A River Runs by, Stainless steel, aluminum, chains, pottery, artificial Stones, and sand, 2025
▌About the Artist｜YANG Chi-Chuan
YANG Chi-Chuan was born in 1985 in Taipei, where she currently lives. Her work is characterized by a delicate quality linked to memory and explores the complex relationships among people, places, objects, and events. Recently, she has focused on the materiality of handcrafted ceramics by suspending many self-fired ceramic pieces in tree-like or spatially expansive structures. Using mechanical devices that rotate or sway, these pieces become “wind chime” installations that produce gentle sounds. These wind chime installations embody elements from Yang’s decade-long artistic journey, representing her ongoing exploration of personal experience, natural environment, architectural space, memory, sound, ruins, performativity, organic forms, and non-readymade objects.
