- Date 2014.07.11
Just go for super earth — Solo Exhibition of HUNG Yun-Ting
Just go for super earth — Solo Exhibition of HUNG Yun-Ting
Time｜2014/7/7 - 2014/8/15
Opening Hours｜Mon-Fri 09:30-18:00
About the Work
We look up into the starry sky. The reason of looking up is not just because of our curiosity about the universe, but also about our desire to explore the purpose of life and the subtle connections between things. In the process of looking for the connections, imagination has long been our resort. We are able to, even without a spacesuit, travel around the unknown universe through the power of imagination just like the little guy, naked but always with a swim cap, which is a main character in her works, jumping into the star-scattered darkness.
Hung often takes the development of astronomy to elaborate her topic of interest: to examine the universe from the human’s perspective and to explore how to behave in a world of changing systems and definitions. In her work “Back to Earth?,” viewers can see an animation about the starry night through a model telescope, which talks about tides and the gravitational force between the earth and the moon, leading to a subject of nostalgia; in her “Back to Earth?2,” Hung takes the reference of the discovery of the first super-Earth in 2005 to address the contradiction of nostalgia; and in her ”We are all together,” a person, who constantly spins and revolves, takes viewers to experience rotating spaces in the universe in order to create a changing, reshaping world.
Texts by ZOU Yong-Shan
About the Artist
HUNG Yun-Ting exhibited at Ostrale’09, International Exhibition of Contemporary Arts in 2009 and graduated from Kunsthochschule für Bildenden Künste in Dresden for Meisterstudium in 2010. Her works have been exhibited in New York, Paris and Berlin, among others. She has always been interested in the subjects of space and body. She emphasizes how to connect between viewers’ bodies, exhibition space and the work. Imagination, which has been the focal point of her works, again plays a key role in her explorations of the connections.
