Rub'n It Comes Out - Li Shuo-Yu Solo Exhibition

Rub'n It Comes Out - Li Shuo-Yu Solo Exhibition

Duration ｜2026.04.22 (wed) - 05.24 (sun)

Artist ｜Li Shuo-Yu

Venue ｜Absolute Space for the Arts

Opening ｜2026.04.26 (sun) 15:00

Forum ｜2026.04.26 (sun) 15:30

Guest ｜Wu Mu-Ching

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：Statement：

"How wonderful is the taste of imagination! Without it, what can lead us to that greedy, mutually possessive Garden of Eden?"

Imagination becomes a means for the imaginer to attain a certain authenticity beyond the real world. This exhibition, "Rub 'n It Comes Out," aims to operate within the framework of "sex/desire" through the method of "imagination," similar to what philosopher Bataille described in his discussion of eroticism: "Eroticism is a series of intense psychological and physical movements, used to rehearse or simulate the continuous state of 'self-disappearance.'"

"Rub 'n It Comes Out" comes from a time I glimpsed the lottery drawing screen outside a lottery shop. The ecstatic screams and the bitter resentment of bettors, regardless of gender, age, or profession, as the balls fell on the screen, were a veritable carnival party filled with sex and desire.

I "imagined" different colored balls rubbing against each other in the lottery box until a result of reaching a climax was revealed. As a special physical experience, this, along with the ready-made objects in this exhibition, such as Sudoku games and building blocks, attempts to squeeze out the gradual formation of "sex/desire" through the juxtaposition of material languages ​​that seem unrelated to "sex/desire" on the surface.

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：Artist Murmur：

"When I close my eyes, that's when you're closest to me."

"No less than an elderly woman in her sixties or seventies by Tainan Railway Station, carrying a few cucumbers in a red and white striped plastic bag, her white hair tied in pigtails; no less than a conversation between a mother and son on a train: 'Mom, you can spit directly on my hand!'"

In certain scenes of everyday life... Well, let's put it this way: I'm a lustful hunting dog. When I smell sex, the indiscriminate prey serves my fetishes in a lewd manner, the primal urges like sharp blades slicing through the boundary between me and "the outside of myself."

Once again, I transformed into a hunting dog, but unexpectedly, the sun cast a brief curse upon me: after I stared at the sun for a long time, everything I could see was left with a black hole, even your belly button.

I've been desperately searching for a source of sexual desire, like secretly playing Sudoku in class, only to realize I've been forgetting to trim my nails, and there's a thin, dark yellow grime running under them.

Have you ever had that grime? If so, could you let me know? I want to blend my grime into yours, to become "our" grime, like co-authors, or accomplices in a crime.

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：About Artist － Shuo Yu Li ：

Born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan in 1996. Currently a second-year master's student in the Department of Fine Arts at National Tainan National University of the Arts, residing in Tainan. Previously studied Applied Mathematics at National Chung Hsing University, dropping out in her third year; and a Master's degree in Fine Arts (Art History and Visual Culture) at National Taipei University of the Arts, dropping out again in her third year. Repeatedly encountering unavoidable transitions have become different memories within her creative path; she has a passion for Sudoku. Her recent work focuses on the interactive relationship between digital systems, games, the body, and desire.

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展覽補助｜臺南市政府文化局

空間營運補助｜國藝會