I Have A Dream.－Kuandu Biennale 2008: Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts

The Kuandu Biennale 2008” serves as the premiere program of this year’s Kuandu Art Festival, and it is also the first biannual exhibition to be held at the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts. Unlike other similar exhibitions, this biennale especially invites prominent local curators and scholars to establish a consulting committee to select ten participating artists from overseas based on a recommendation list. Then, each artist proposes his or her curator or critique, in hope of forging a direct-inter changing art platform. Besides the ten solo exhibitions, the organizers will also host a forum for discussion on which every curator and art critique will offer a discourse detailing his or her artist and the selection process. The invited local scholars will also hold panels of discussion with foreign curator and critiques to foster a better interchange of experiences.

Everybody dreams of certain goals, but not everyone tries to achieve them, The Kuandu Biennale 2008” works as the locus to string the dreams of different artists from different Asian countries, initiating a multifaceted, dream-related” practice of art. Artists put their dreams into practice and also bring out queries on the potential” of their environment as well as how Asian societies should become self-aware of themselves while facing major global changes. The biennale envisages fulfilling the artists’ dreams to the maximum limit through their works, which can be an experiment of dreams, a window of sub-consciousness, a fantasy of body and soul, a rhapsody by artists, a loss of memories, or even a supernatural interpretation of dreams.

Using dream” as the theme of the exhibition, the ten solo exhibitions connect with one another as a chain. In the cycle of perception, the artists present a multifaceted observation and interpretation of Asian societies: Japan, Korea, China, Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, India, and Taiwan. The solo exhibitions not only manifest the artists’ individual styles of creation but also offer a transnational and trans-ethnic reference, analysis and comparison. The exhibitions hope to integrate and re-present the unique interpretation and social significance that each of the Asian societies has on dreams”.