Upon the Gathering Waters — Hong-gah Museum Summer CollectionPost date：2026-05-28
Updates：2026-05-28
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- Event Time
- 2026-06-13~2026-08-2310:30-17:30
- Organizer
- Chew’s Culture Foundation, Hong-Gah Museum
- Event Location
- 11F., No. 166, Daye Rd.(Hong-gah Museum), Beitou Dist., Taipei City Taiwan, R.O.C
Since beginning his collecting journey in the 1980s, Andrew Chiu, founder of Hong-gah Museum, has amassed over two thousand works spanning painting, sculpture, photography, video, and traditional crafts. Since the museum's establishment in 1999, alongside major thematic exhibitions drawn from the collection, selected works have also been presented in the museum's corridor vitrines in dialogue with exhibitions in the main galleries.
This selection accompanies Fingertip Rituals: Solo Exhibition of Liao Xuan-Zhen, in which the artist traces connections between formative environments and personal memory. In response, seven works by five artists have been selected, each offering a distinct perspective on everyday life, local surroundings, and inner experience.
Wang Wan-Chun's Parhelion, Goose Floating in the Air, and Drama (II) place furniture and household objects within landscapes, weaving together the real and the imagined to create a theatrical and quietly mysterious atmosphere. Cheng Cheng-Huang's Emptiness Form Series (V) begins from the relationship between human and the natural world, reflecting existence through collected organic materials and their traces. Lu Tien-Yen (Lu I-Chung)'s White Chair uses fragmented compositions to create a sparse and quietly enigmatic visual language.Both Cheng Tsai-Tung's Flowing Water Beneath the Covered Bridge (Concrete Bridge) and Shih Ping-Hsi's Xiluo Bridge depict man-made structures embedded within natural scenery: the former records the coexistence of streams and modern infrastructure through geometric fields of color, while the latter carries memories of the land through rich hues and expressive brushwork.
The exhibition title, Upon the Gathering Waters, is drawn from ''Cai Ping'' in the Classic of Poetry (Shijing), where the phrase describes pools formed where flowing waters gather as women collected aquatic plants in preparation for ritual offerings in ancient China. If Fingertip Rituals takes the Houjin River as its emotional and historical point of departure, this selection uses painting and objects to evoke the emotional currents of daily life and the inner resonances inspired by natural landscapes, while reflecting on the interdependent relationship between human and non-human worlds.
This selection accompanies Fingertip Rituals: Solo Exhibition of Liao Xuan-Zhen, in which the artist traces connections between formative environments and personal memory. In response, seven works by five artists have been selected, each offering a distinct perspective on everyday life, local surroundings, and inner experience.
Wang Wan-Chun's Parhelion, Goose Floating in the Air, and Drama (II) place furniture and household objects within landscapes, weaving together the real and the imagined to create a theatrical and quietly mysterious atmosphere. Cheng Cheng-Huang's Emptiness Form Series (V) begins from the relationship between human and the natural world, reflecting existence through collected organic materials and their traces. Lu Tien-Yen (Lu I-Chung)'s White Chair uses fragmented compositions to create a sparse and quietly enigmatic visual language.Both Cheng Tsai-Tung's Flowing Water Beneath the Covered Bridge (Concrete Bridge) and Shih Ping-Hsi's Xiluo Bridge depict man-made structures embedded within natural scenery: the former records the coexistence of streams and modern infrastructure through geometric fields of color, while the latter carries memories of the land through rich hues and expressive brushwork.
The exhibition title, Upon the Gathering Waters, is drawn from ''Cai Ping'' in the Classic of Poetry (Shijing), where the phrase describes pools formed where flowing waters gather as women collected aquatic plants in preparation for ritual offerings in ancient China. If Fingertip Rituals takes the Houjin River as its emotional and historical point of departure, this selection uses painting and objects to evoke the emotional currents of daily life and the inner resonances inspired by natural landscapes, while reflecting on the interdependent relationship between human and non-human worlds.
