Tsai Pou-Ching, born in Chiayi in 1986, lives and works in Tainan. The artist graduated from the MA Program at the Department of Fine Arts, National University of Tainan in 2014. Tsai employs mainly moving images and installation art as his creative mediums, concerning himself primarily with the value system of the contemporary society and engaging value conversion in the midst. The artist was awarded with exhibition grants by the National Culture and Arts Foundation (NCAF) in 2013 and 2017. He has organized numerous solo exhibitions. Also, Tsai was an artist in residence at Post-Ox Warehouse Experimental Site in Macau in 2019. Tsai produces mostly works of moving images and installation art.
In recent years, Tsai emphasizes on the study of biology-related contexts. Through a variety of means like misuse, fabrication, etc., he produces works using systems of biology. The inspiration for this series came from the artist affection for animals since childhood. He has been fond of learning knowledge about animals, and by which he oftentimes been inspired as well. Whenever Tsai turns on TV and watches documentaries of these animals, he usually wonders about the meanings of himself to these animals far away. It is said that there are over a thousand species discovered by biologists each year. Yet, there are also over a thousand species disappearing before discovery. So, what is the relationship between mankind and animals? With such inquiry as the point of departure, the artist endeavors to comb through an amateur study of biology amidst the context of biology dossier via a methodology different than those in science, so as to recapture the relationship between humans and animals.
2019 Artist in Residence (Post-Ox Warehouse Experimental Site, Macau, China)
2019“Macau Canidrome” (Post-Ox Warehouse Experimental Site, Macau, China)
2018 “Delusionography” (Waley Art, Taipei, Taiwan)
2017 The 106-1 Grant for Art Exhibition from NCAF
2014 Winner of the 12th Taoyuan Contemporary Art Award
2013 The 102-1 Grant for Art Exhibition from NCAF