Art Scope: Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts

Participating Artists 

1.Imagination as Reality

Imin Mavaliw, Shui-tsai Chen, Jin-hua Shi, I-chun Chen, He-hsien Zhong, and I-shu Chen

2. Immersive Imagination with Whole Body and Soul

Yih-hong Lee, Tien-yu Hung, and Hsien-yiu Tsai

3.Attraction from the Other’s Line of Sight

Hsin-yueh Lin, Tsung-sheng Lin, Shun-chu Chen, Lan-chin Li, and Cheng-chang Wu

4.Landscape of Things

Sheng-chien Hsiao, Tanes Naipanich, and Jui-chung Yao

5.Power of Obsessions

Kao-sing Liu and Jin-hua Shi

6.Revealed Hiding and Hidden Revealing

Ching-hui Chou, Chia-hung Hsu, Hsien-hsiang Peng, and Ting-jin Chen

This exhibition presents nearly 100 works by 22 artists. Some of the works are from KMFA’s own collection, some are borrowed, and others are commissioned works especially for this exhibition. Each of the works is an “art scope”, through which the artist guides the eyes of viewers to the “background scenery” such as the views of magnificent natural landscape with lively floral and fauna, to the “middle ground scenery” of topics such as historical development, cityscape transitions, ethic (national) identification, and social conflicts, and to the “foreground scenery” of one’s own inner conflicts, nightmares, obsessions, and desires, and then to the “virtual reality” where there is everything but also nothing. With the “art scope” constructed by each artist using brushstrokes, lines, colors, videos, sounds, blank space, and or ready-mades, we can see past the “obstacles to our eyes and hearts” and get “what is not painted or what is not said”. In museums, “A complete exhibit is just a ‘cultural object’ while ‘stories’ only lie in the missing or repaired parts of an incomplete exhibit.” In each work of art, we see a world as we see in a grain of sand and a heaven as in a wildflower. With all the works in this exhibition, viewers are presented with a world composed of many different fragments of the real world folded together. In this world of “expanded reality”.

Installation view