Seeking for Absent Forms in Forests - Yu Ting Tsai Solo ExhibitionPost date：2024-10-17
Updates：2024-10-17
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- Event Time
- 2024-11-08~2025-02-16TUE. - SUN. 10:00-17:00
- Event Location
- Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Beitou Dist., Taipei City Taiwan, R.O.C
The silence of night marks the hour when mountain-climbers depart. Like sleepwalking, they intrude into the darkened forests.
For seven years, having witnessed the final moments in life, a mountain guide as an artist is climbing continuously in the thick and dense forests in Taiwan. There exists the allure of ascending and the bizarre tales and the sighs of history through the dense woodlands. In those long days, being isolated from the world outside, the artist found countless revelations.
The mountains not only hide the forgotten traces of civilization but also forge an “Liminal Zone”. Time-buried history, faded memories, human desires, and the missing humans being specters have drifted in the shadows of ancient trees.
This exhibition makes a focus of "disappearance" as a state of existence: the elusive disappearance of inaccessible mountain ruins, the dissociative state of body and mind while climbing through the nocturnal forest, and the ambiguous zones of cultural transition from the Japanese colonial era to the early Republic period. All reside within this liminal zone. The artist and the observer dwell in this state of absence, where all things are bound within a grand cycle.
The exhibition also explores the entranced state of the viewer, in which consciousness transcends the boundaries of time, enveloped by different space of forests in the mountains. It reflects on the gradually fading collective memories of Japanese colonization, forest industries, and Taiwanese people shrouded within the ethereal woods.
For seven years, having witnessed the final moments in life, a mountain guide as an artist is climbing continuously in the thick and dense forests in Taiwan. There exists the allure of ascending and the bizarre tales and the sighs of history through the dense woodlands. In those long days, being isolated from the world outside, the artist found countless revelations.
The mountains not only hide the forgotten traces of civilization but also forge an “Liminal Zone”. Time-buried history, faded memories, human desires, and the missing humans being specters have drifted in the shadows of ancient trees.
This exhibition makes a focus of "disappearance" as a state of existence: the elusive disappearance of inaccessible mountain ruins, the dissociative state of body and mind while climbing through the nocturnal forest, and the ambiguous zones of cultural transition from the Japanese colonial era to the early Republic period. All reside within this liminal zone. The artist and the observer dwell in this state of absence, where all things are bound within a grand cycle.
The exhibition also explores the entranced state of the viewer, in which consciousness transcends the boundaries of time, enveloped by different space of forests in the mountains. It reflects on the gradually fading collective memories of Japanese colonization, forest industries, and Taiwanese people shrouded within the ethereal woods.
