📌 8/10 Sat.
15:00-16:00 Lecture
Presenter: Emerson Wang
16:00 Opening
Artists will present
The Delicate Stirring of Everyday Emotions
Narrating the Endless Feelings in Everyday Life
Perception begins with sensing and then knowing.
Micro Perception calls attention to these details, often overlooked under the framework of the metanarrative, to re-examine intangible clues and awaken our inner feelings. The exhibition features three young artists born after 1980: TSAI Meng-Chang, Aya KAWATO, and LEONG Hoi-Sa. Their works highlights the delicate and continuous narratives, from gazing into individual cosmoses and perceiving memories of the environment, to experiencing delicate sentiments from visual nerves and life energy. By connecting these snippets and moments of life into a tapestry of feelings and emotions, with the hope to remind this fast-paced society of a crucial truth: the essence of this world is often found in these small yet profound details.
The Invisible Signifiers: The Subtle and the Pure
In the Between series, TSAI Meng-Chang continues to document the verdant whispers of the land. Since he began the series The City Without Railway in 2021, he has focused it on common plants found in Taiwan’s streets and alleyways, such as plantain, elephant’s ear, dragon fruit, and Marabutan trees. Tsai’s work creates an eternal dialogue between city and nature, reality and memory, as well as individual and society. It brings the spectator’s attention back to the small yet captivating things amidst urban life’s hustle and bustle.
Kyoto-based artist Aya KAWATO combines the traditional Japanese textile called the “Oshima Tsumugi,” Op Art, and neuroscience to create her work. She consistently explores an experimental aesthetic responding to the theme of “the controlled and the uncontrollable.” Kawato starts by using a computer to simulate perfect compositions. However, as she creates silk screens and applies ink, imperfections gradually emerge from the structural patterns. Finally, she applies the acrylic paint by hand, leaving faint brushing marks that reflect human intervention. Through her work, Kawato explores the ideas of control, visual experience, and the beauty of imperfection while continuously guiding the audience’s thinking to explore and question vision through her experiments with different media and scenes.
LEONG Hoi-Sa ‘s work contemplates plastic forms inspired by living plants and seashells in nature, through which she attempts to capture image that evoke palpitating feelings in visual experiences. By giving meanings to organic forms of plants or seashells, she transforms them into stone sculptures, embedding ideas of permanence and impermanence, as well as germination and disappearance. Her sculptures embody an everlasting quality that transcends time. For Leong, the process of carving stone indicates gradual yet vivid physical perceptions that bring an encounter with a tranquil inner world through attention to detail.
