Still Waters Run Deep: Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts

Using light to define the space and the image of river as a metaphor, the transformation explores new possibilities between a museum and its city.

The exhibition theme, “still waters run deep,” is an English idiom and aims to use “river” as a metaphor to connect the city’s cultural context and topographical texture from both the temporal and spatial dimensions. Temporally speaking, this connection is imagined to be vertical, making use of the city’s history and extending its memory and depth to string together the city’s past, present and future. Spatially speaking, the connection is envisioned as horizontal, employing the image of a river that originates from the museum and flows through other cultural and historical sites.