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17 November - 16 December, 2018
Good Underground Art Space, Hualien, Taiwan
Yu-Ju CHEN
Chung-Hsuan LAN
Organizer: SLY art space
見地
17 November - 16 December, 2018
好地下藝術空間，花蓮，台灣
陳宇如
藍仲軒
主辦單位：新樂園藝術空間
View on Good Underground Art Space
17 November - 16 December, 2018
Good Underground Art Space, Hualien, Taiwan
Yu-Ju CHEN
Chung-Hsuan LAN
Organizer: SLY art space
見地
17 November - 16 December, 2018
好地下藝術空間，花蓮，台灣
陳宇如
藍仲軒
主辦單位：新樂園藝術空間
View on Good Underground Art Space
The exhibition is part of the Excellence Award organized by SLY Art Space, featuring a dual exhibition by Lan Chung-Hsuan and Chen Yu-Ju that seamlessly integrates their works.
Upon first arriving at the exhibition space, Chen Yu-Ju immediately noticed the distinctive musty smell in the basement. To her, this scent occupied all her senses. As with her previous site-specific artworks, Yu-Ju incorporated the scent into her work, using the source of the musty smell: water. As you descend the stairs, you will be dripped on by water. At the bottom of the stairs, a European-style fountain, as white as squirrel soap, allows you to wash away the dirt you just encountered. Then, a forest appears before you. Yu-Ju uses the damp imagery of the forest to transform the musty smell. However, each tree is artificially collected and erected; they have lost their natural functions, retaining only their appearance.
Lan Chung-Hsuan's "An Inner Ghost" (2017) was created during an artist residency in Finland, coinciding with the Ghost Month in Taiwan. Despite being in a remote forest on the other side of the world, the artist still received reminders about the taboos of Ghost Month from Taiwan. The artist questioned these rules and wanted to reject their cross-border restrictions. In the video, the artist consciously violates several selected Ghost Month taboos, but not in a provocative way—simply performing human actions in pure nature. This series of videos is played on various traditional televisions, symbolizing the influence of taboos from the previous generation, as well as the transmission of these taboos through society, family, and media.
本展為新樂園藝術空間新人獎的展覽，由藍仲軒及陳宇如帶來一場融入彼此的雙個展。
陳宇如在初到展場時，便注意到地下室獨有的霉味。對她而言，這個氣味佔據了所有意識，而就如她以往的場域藝術作品，宇如將氣味容納進了作品，使用了霉味的根本：水。走下樓梯時，你將會被水滴到；在樓梯的盡頭，一座有著松鼠肥皂純白的歐式噴泉能讓你洗盡方才所受的髒污。之後，一片森林會出現在眼前，宇如利用森林的潮濕意象來將霉味轉換。然而，每一株樹木都是經由人為採集樹立，它們已經失去了植物的功能，只剩下了植物的表象。
藍仲軒的〈An Inner Ghost〉（2017）為在芬蘭駐村時所製作，而當時正值台灣的農曆鬼月。在芬蘭，即使在地球遙遠彼端的荒林中，他仍在接收著來⾃台灣關於鬼月禁忌的叮嚀。藝術家質疑著這些規矩並想拒絕它跨界的束搏。錄像中，藝術家有意識違背著數個我所挑選出來的鬼月禁忌，但並不激烈的觸忌，只是在純粹的自然中，做著純粹人的行為。此系列錄像由各式的傳統電視播放，意味著禁忌從上一個世代的影響，亦意味著傳承禁忌的社會、家庭、媒體。
Upon first arriving at the exhibition space, Chen Yu-Ju immediately noticed the distinctive musty smell in the basement. To her, this scent occupied all her senses. As with her previous site-specific artworks, Yu-Ju incorporated the scent into her work, using the source of the musty smell: water. As you descend the stairs, you will be dripped on by water. At the bottom of the stairs, a European-style fountain, as white as squirrel soap, allows you to wash away the dirt you just encountered. Then, a forest appears before you. Yu-Ju uses the damp imagery of the forest to transform the musty smell. However, each tree is artificially collected and erected; they have lost their natural functions, retaining only their appearance.
Lan Chung-Hsuan's "An Inner Ghost" (2017) was created during an artist residency in Finland, coinciding with the Ghost Month in Taiwan. Despite being in a remote forest on the other side of the world, the artist still received reminders about the taboos of Ghost Month from Taiwan. The artist questioned these rules and wanted to reject their cross-border restrictions. In the video, the artist consciously violates several selected Ghost Month taboos, but not in a provocative way—simply performing human actions in pure nature. This series of videos is played on various traditional televisions, symbolizing the influence of taboos from the previous generation, as well as the transmission of these taboos through society, family, and media.
本展為新樂園藝術空間新人獎的展覽，由藍仲軒及陳宇如帶來一場融入彼此的雙個展。
陳宇如在初到展場時，便注意到地下室獨有的霉味。對她而言，這個氣味佔據了所有意識，而就如她以往的場域藝術作品，宇如將氣味容納進了作品，使用了霉味的根本：水。走下樓梯時，你將會被水滴到；在樓梯的盡頭，一座有著松鼠肥皂純白的歐式噴泉能讓你洗盡方才所受的髒污。之後，一片森林會出現在眼前，宇如利用森林的潮濕意象來將霉味轉換。然而，每一株樹木都是經由人為採集樹立，它們已經失去了植物的功能，只剩下了植物的表象。
藍仲軒的〈An Inner Ghost〉（2017）為在芬蘭駐村時所製作，而當時正值台灣的農曆鬼月。在芬蘭，即使在地球遙遠彼端的荒林中，他仍在接收著來⾃台灣關於鬼月禁忌的叮嚀。藝術家質疑著這些規矩並想拒絕它跨界的束搏。錄像中，藝術家有意識違背著數個我所挑選出來的鬼月禁忌，但並不激烈的觸忌，只是在純粹的自然中，做著純粹人的行為。此系列錄像由各式的傳統電視播放，意味著禁忌從上一個世代的影響，亦意味著傳承禁忌的社會、家庭、媒體。
LAN Chung-Hsuan
An Inner Ghost, 2017
8 channel videos
04 m 00 s
An Inner Ghost, 2017
8 channel videos
04 m 00 s
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