The Diamond that is Raindrops by Ya-hui Wang

【The Diamond that is Raindrops】 Date｜2020 / 6 / 10 Wed. - 7 / 19 Sun. Opening｜2020 / 6 / 13 Sun. 15 : 00 Forum｜2020 / 6 / 13 Sun. 15:30 -17 : 30 Guest｜Esther Lu

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【Statement】 I really like a passage in Shih-t’ao’s Friar Bitter-Melon on Painting: “Life in nature consists in the ink-wash expressing the concrete forms of hills and rivers and things, seen from the front or the back, from the side and on a slant, scattered or clustered together, distant or near, external or internal, solid or empty, continuous or broken; they have layers and sections and falling aspects; they have charm and elusive expanse. Thus all nature presents its soul to man and man has the power to control its vitality and culture.” When we see the scenery of mountains, what we actually see is not just the mountains but differ-ent layers of connections from a personal perspective. Some of these connections appear as scen-ery, while some as subtle atmosphere. If one can sense these qualities, it means that there is some-thing corresponding in his or her heart. For example, when a person sees the barren tree branches in the midwinter at some particular moment, and thus feels a special resonance inside; then at this moment, the world appears as another existence. This kind of moment is like the world that chil-dren capture with intuition. It is wonderful and real, yet usual. I have always been trying to capture things in these moments. Images to me have always been like fables: it is what it is yet it isn’t so. This seemingly unsolva-ble contradiction (yet unnecessary to be solved) actually has very deep meanings inside. In this exhibition, I started along the timeline and gradually picked out the imagery that was originally hidden behind my lives. I returned time back to a single picture in another way. I often feel this different-yet-juxtaposed time and space in my mundane life. Big and small; distant and near; light and heavy; fast and slow. These different qualities have always been alternating bright and dark in my heart. The other day, I picked out a poetry collection by Shuntarō Tanikawa from my book-shelf by chance. I bought it in Japan many years ago and all the poems have Japanese and English translation side by side. When I flipped to the page that was copied from his original notebook, there seemed to be some feelings emerging from this book that I had read for so many times. Therefore, after a few days in my studio, I put the book with this page open on the black tablecloth that had not been cleaned for a while. A wonderful scene showed up, where time became a loop, and suddenly I understood another poem of the poet. That’s right. The Diamond that is Raindrops.

【About Ya-hui Wang】 1973 Born in Taipei, Taiwan 1998, B.A. in Painting, Department of Fine Arts, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan 2004, M.A. in Arts and Technology, Taipei National University of Arts, Taipei, Taiwan SOLO EXHIBITIONS｜ 2020, “The Diamond that is Raindrops” absolute space for the arts, Tainan, Taiwan 2019, “A Brief History of Time”, ESLITE GALLERY, Taipei, Taiwan 2018, “Questions to Shadow”, Neuer Kunstverein Giessen, Giessen, Germany 2016, “A Slant of Light”, TKG+, Taipei, Taiwan 2012, “Near and Far”, TKG+, Taipei, Taiwan 2012, “Pick up a leaf when it falls”, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Kyoto, Japan 2011, “A day and a new day”, National Central University Art Center, Taoyuan, Taiwan 2010, “Handmade Fairytales”, Cable Gallery, Helsinki, Finland 2009, “Rainbow and Bow”, Galerie Grand Siècle, Taipei, Taiwan 2008, “The Tropical Work: Snowman”, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan 2007, “I’ve been here before and will come again”, Galerie Grand Siècle, Taipei, Taiwan GROUP EXHIBITIONS｜ 2020, “Aux anthropoloques martiens” New Taipei City Arts Center, Taipei, Taiwan 2019, “Sui Generis of Taiwan-Jing Pai”, It Park, Taipei, Taiwan 2017, “Arts. Ask about Asia”, Daegu Art Factory, Daegu, Korea 2017, “A Space Andante”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan 2017, “Crisscrossing East and West:The Remaking of Ink Art in Contemporary East Asia”, Moca Yin Chuan, China 2017, “Collecting and son on”, Children’s art Education Center, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan 2016, Greater Taipei Biennial of Contemporary Arts “Dé-coïncidence—d’où viennent l’art et l’existence?”, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taipei, Taiwan 2016, The 35th Asolo Art Film Festival “TAIWAN VIDEA 2.0: Cultural Encounter─The Taiwanese Avant-Garde Video Exhibition”, Teatro Eleonora Duse, Asolo, Italy 2016, “Dance with the Museum Collection – Retrieved, Reimagined, Restated”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan 2016, “Urban Nomad x TCAC (A Gaze on the Contemporary)”, Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Taipei, Taiwan AWARDS｜ 2012, Outstanding Alumni of Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan 2007, Loop Award, Best Gallery Work and Presentation, Barcelona, Spain 2005, Yageo Tech-Art Award, Taipei, Taiwan 2002, Taipei Arts Award, Taipei, Taiwan RESIDENCIES｜ 2010, The Helsinki International Artist Programme, Helsinki, Finland 2007, Cité des Arts, Paris, France 2006, Location One, New York, USA