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Slow Objects — Ting,Kuan-Yun Solo Exhibition
2021/10/26 - 2021/12/19
Through handicraft, the craftswoman, Ting Kuan-Yun, infuses her own universe view into her works. At this moment, the works are not only an interface that transfers personal emotions but an extension of people’s thoughts. Therefore, as the self-projected objects of the artist, could they have a consciousness of their own? Would the objects one day be able to spread and extend the memories they share with people? Especially after having a child, the artist started to reconsider how time could infuse into objects.     "The artist treats the house as a container. She believes that humans’ bodies are like objects in life inside this big container. With different times, light, temperatures, and humidity, those seemingly ordinary objects changed accordingly, resulting in gradual physical changes such as mold, dust, deformation, and melting, etc. The objects have changed in the house; whereas we human beings have changed in our thoughts. In this big container, people could see the imprint of feelings and self-condition through these long-standing objects. As our life stages have changed over time, the objects surrounding our life have also transformed into a new shape. With the new life born, the artist’s imagination of the house has also been rearranged, which is like the objects in life having new changes in this container. " The venue of “Slow Objects” is like a metaphor for a container, enlarging the perception of people’s daily moments. This exhibition has reflected our state of existence through the investigation of the interpersonal cycle and the interdependence among different objects. Hence, “slowness” has become a daily routine: due to slowness, human is aware, objects are changeable, and daily lives are even extraordinary.  
2F special Gallery
A Rhythm of Tree Forming the Forest
2021/09/11 - 2021/12/05
On the train, naturalists, businessmen, government staff, forestry workers, and artists are all heading west into the forested mountains. Whether they are exploring for research, economy, or creativity, people have brought settlement, livelihood, and destruction. The towering and fragrant Taiwan red false cypress and Taiwan yellow cedar have been gradually forced to share their habitat with Japanese cypress introduced by the Japanese during the occupation period. All the trees followed the steam as it moved into the city to become the Shinto shrines, toriis, houses, utility poles, and various furnitures ubiquitous in people's lives. From the first to third floor of the Chiayi Art Museum, A Rhythm of Tree Forming the Forest begins with works inspired by the natural scenery of the mountain forests. The audiences are taken into the woods to see the relationship between people, the forests, and the mountains gradually unfold on the second floor before finally being taken to witness the rise of an industry and its remaining legacy on the third floor. At the Chiayi Sawmill and the Zhaoping Park, exhibits stitch together the past and present through fragments of history and imagination piece-by-piece, layer-by-layer. A Rhythm of Tree Forming the Forest attempts to view the relationship between humanity and nature as it evolved through the past hundred years through the scenery of trees and forests of Alishan and Chiayi depicted by the elder artists and the responses of contemporary artists. Meanwhile, the exhibition also attempts to re-explore the relationship between forest industry, forest culture, city landscape, history of living, and the city of Chiayi itself through multiple approaches as a reflection on the history.
CHIAYI ART MUSEUM-CHIAYI SAWMILL-ZHAOPING PARK