Journal of Visited Light by Po-Yen Wang, Tzu-Huan Lin, Tzu-An Wu

Journal of Visited Light by Po-Yen Wang, Tzu-Huan Lin, Tzu-An Wu

Curator｜Jhen-Kai Wang Date｜2020/09/19（SAT.）-10/25 （SUN.） Opening Ceremony｜2020/09/19（SAT.） 17:30-18:00

Forum｜2020/09/19（SAT.） 18:30-20:00

Guest｜Pei-Kuei TSsai ★Special Screening Programme｜14:00-17:30（ Loop in every hour）

Po-Yen Wang, A Recital, 3D Computer Animation, 4’45”, 2019-2020

Tzu-Huan Lin, Visions of Tomorrow Today, 9’16”, Digital video, 2018

Tzu-An Wu, Proxy of Heaven, 7’31”, Super 8mm to digital, 2015

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【Statement】

On June 21, 2020, under the sky in the spread of the plague, the world as if to rest, the people on the street look up to the same direction. They are in the process of observing the solar eclipse, the collective behavior appeared in the documentary, “ Le Moulin”, to reproduce the historical fragment, after hundreds of years, still the light of the sun through the pupil. What are we really looking for from the spectacle? Light, which human beings strive to pursue throughout their whole life. Only when the individual breaks away from the matrix and comes out of the water in the direction of light. We could lead to the western paradise by following the light of Buddha at the junction of life and death. In Plato's cave, the primordial people chose to leave the darkness and struggle to open their eyes in order to look directly at the sun, the symbol of truth. It is the same as the audience in the white cube, all looking for the work where the light sources converge in the space, or in the black box. Staring intently at the film light projected on the screen. Absolute space for the Arts in this annual festival is honored to invite three video artists: Po-Yen Wang, Tzu-An Wu, Tzu-Huan Lin. They have lived in New York for a long time, good at individual three-dimensional computer animation, experimental film and video art. All three of them are light seekers, who have a keen insight into the changes of time and space in the process of movement. In addition, using the dynamic image as the creation medium, they also transform the elements in the image into flat paintings and installations in the space. The light in the works is both the form and the content, both the subject and the object. In this very period of global border closures, by the annual exhibition of the three works of artists exhibition, to reflection the inner meaning of “觀光(Guan Guang)” : sightseeing, it points to not only the behavior of human to travel to visit, also is the human eye for observation and measurement of visible light. To use “記(Ji)” as concatenation means, with image as a writing tool, just like the past literati with calligraphy and painting while traveling. The “Journal of Visited Light” seems to spread out the travel notes of the three artists. The light expanded from them and penetrated through the spaces. Turning into an Aura could be seen by the audience and reflected into mind.

【About Curator｜Jhen-Kai Wang】 Jhen-Kai Wang serves as the director of Taiwan Film Critics Society. He has been writing art and film reviews for a long time. His works can be seen on such platforms as Funscreen, The News Lens, E-reading of National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, and Unitas Lifestyle, etc. The first cross-domain book will be published at the end of this year, with the theme of Chuan Mei Theater. He has served as a judge for the Golden Horse Award Asian Film Observer Mission and served for the AICA. During this period, he has co-organized many exhibitions. As a curator for the first time, “觀光記(Guan Guang Ji), Journal of Visited Light” aims to draw out a unique curatorial poetics based on the cross-media focus on image and writing.

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【About Artist｜Po-Yen Wang】 Po-Yen Wang holds two Master of Fine Arts degrees from the School of Visual Arts in New York City with a major in Computer Art, and Taipei National University of the Arts with a major in New Media Art. He won Gold Medal Award in New Media Art (National Art Exhibition, Taiwan), Paula Rhodes Award for Exceptional Achievement in Computer Art (School of Visual Arts, New York), Asia Digital Art Award (Fukuoka, Japan), and he completed the Artist in the Marketplace Fellowship (NY, United States) in 2018. His solo exhibitions include The Black Sun, Taipei Digital Art Center, Taiwan (2020), Atlas Portal, Taiwan Academy, Los Angeles, United States (2018), An Obscure Silhouette, Flux Factory, NY, United States (2018), and Saudade, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan(2016). ◆ Website: https://poyenwang.com/ ●

【About Artist｜Tzu-Huan Lin】 Tzu-Huan Lin– (b. Taipei, 1986) His work centers around personal experience as an immigrant, adapts to connect different subjects or stories to address the phenomena. He received an MFA in Digital Arts at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Lin’s work has been included in international group exhibitions such as "The 6th International Video Art Exhibition", "ADAF 14th Athens Digital Arts Festival" and solo exhibitions at Taipei Fine Art Museum, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts. ◆ Website: tzuhuanlin.com ●

【About Artist｜Tzu-An Wu】 Tzu-An Wu makes experimental films. He likes to manipulate heterogeneous images, sounds, and texts, to question the construction of the narrative and the selfhood. In recent years he mainly works with Super 8 and 16mm film techniques, while he is also interested in the intersection of analog and digital image production. He holds an MA in Media Studies from The New School, New York, and a BA in Gender and Cultural Studies from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. His works have been shown worldly, including BFI Flare (London), IFFR (Netherland), CROSSROADS (San Francisco), EXiS (Seoul), KLEX (Kuala Lumpur), Xposed Film Festival(Berlin), MixNYC (New York) and more. He was awarded the jury prize at Festival of Different and Experimental Cinema (Paris). Exhibitions include Taiwan Biennial, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, and Taipei Artist Village, etc. Also, he is a member of The Other Cinema, a collective dedicated to experimental cinema and the moving image. ◆ Website: tzuanwu.net

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