That-has-been - Cheng An-Li Solo Exhibition

That-has-been - Cheng An-Li Solo Exhibition

展期 Duration｜2026.06.13 (Sat) - 07.05 (Sun)

藝術家 Artist｜鄭安利 Cheng An-Li

地點 Venue｜絕對空間 Absolute Space for the Arts

開幕茶會Opening｜2026.06.13 (Sat) 15:00

開幕座談 Forum｜2026.06.13 (Sat) 15:30

與談人 Guest｜林一寬Lin Yi-Kuan

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Statement

by Lin Yi-Kuan

Memory is interwoven with personal experience and perception. Fleeting moments vanish in an instant, yet emotions continue to accumulate or recede over time. The carrier of memory becomes a compiling platform where additions and deletions coexist. 

In That-Has-Been, Cheng An-Li’s 2026 solo exhibition at Absolute Space for the Arts, the textile-based artist explores the transformative potential of materials. The integration of text into textile structures, opening up multiple layers of meaning and interpretation.

In recent years, she has worked as an interpreter for Absolute Space for the Arts. Notes taken in both Chinese and English are transferred onto organza, cut apart, and woven together. As the text is fragmented and obscured, its original meanings shift into new formations. Layers of translucent organza partially reveal and conceal the words, inviting viewers to explore ambiguity and multiple readings.

Lightweight and portable, paper and textiles have long served as materials for recording and preserving history throughout human civilization. How these functions may be transformed in the age of artificial intelligence remains difficult to predict. 

Cheng An-Li is drawn to the stable order of everyday objects and takes a particular interest in overlooked, ordinary things. Many works in That-Has-Been are made from materials once used by Absolute Space or collaborating artists. Circulating through different contexts, these objects carry traces of time and use.

Through subtle textile techniques, Cheng gently reworks these familiar materials into forms that appear both recognizable and unfamiliar. Each object's previous presence is woven into a small history of encounters, where everyday experiences intersect between self and others.

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About Artist

Cheng An-Li

Education

2011-2013   MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art, major in Fiber, MI

2006-2010   BFA, Material Arts and Design, Tainan National University of the Arts, Tainan, Taiwan

Solo Exhibition

2026       That-has-been – Cheng An-Li Solo Exhibition/ Absolute Space for the Arts, Tainan, Taiwan

2024       Everyday Shadow – Cheng An-Li Solo Exhibition/ East Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2016    Moderate Translation/ Zhizhiren No.67, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2015    Next Art Tainan – A Site Between/ Liang Liang, Tainan, Taiwan

2014    Another Day/ Black and White, Taichung

2014    Silent Object Collection II – Cheng An-Li Solo Exhibition/ Freedom Men Art Apartments, Taichung, Taiwan

2014       Silent Object Collection – Cheng An-Li Solo Exhibition/ Jiang Shan Yi Gai Suo, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Group Exhibitions

2025       Suann-tshù-tshiú/ Mizuiro Workshop, Tainan, Taiwan

2024       The Outskirts/ Tainan Long Story, Tainan, Taiwan

2023       Evoking Dialogues by Contemporary Craft/ Kurashiki Monogatarikan, Japan

               Fluctuation : Style－Context/ Former Tainan Public Hall, Tainan, Taiwan

               Similarity in Art and Sustainability: ESG targets on Creative Arts/ Pinway, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2022       42.195 Eco-manner/ Lishan Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan

2021       Unmapping/ J.P. Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

               LIGHT UP/ 182artspace, Tainan, Taiwan

2020       Constant/ Shift: Kaleidoscope Slashes, National Taiwan Craft Research and Development

               Institute/ Nantou, Taiwan

2019       Linear Time/ Taichung city huludun center, Taichung, Taiwan

               OCD- Taiwan & Polish Artists Exhibition/ 182ARTSPACE, Tainan, Taiwan

               Corner – Textile Group Exhibition/ Museum of Fiber Arts, Taichung        , Taiwan

2018       City Memory – “Salt” Daily containers/ Zhizhiren No.67, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2017    Citation From Craft – Contemporary Textile Art Taiwan + Kanazawa Interchange Exhibition / 21th Century Museum, Kanazawa, Japan

              Mojo Hand/ Hotel Day Plus Teascape, Chiayi, Taiwan/ Liv’in Riverside, Taipei, Taiwan

2016      Home- Trace of Memory/ Zhizhiren No.67, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2014     Chi Chi – Two Person Show, Yi Xiang Gallery/ Tainan, Taiwan

2013      Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art/ Cranbrook Art Museum, MI, USA

              Cranbrook Academy of Art- Fiber Department/ Kingswood Lower Gallery, MI, USA

2012      Fiber house/ Forum gallery, MI, USA

            Twenty in Their Twenties/ Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, USA

2011     Booking/ Suho Paper Memorial Museum, Taiwan

2010     The Maximum Value of Static Frictional Force/ king Car Gallery and Art Center, Taiwan

2009     Valcellina Award/ Museo dell'arte Fabbrile e delle Coltellerie, Italy

            Begin/Origin, Gallery of Eslite Bookstore, Taiwan

Art Fair

2024          East Gallery, One Art Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan

2023       East Gallery, One Art Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan

2022          East Gallery, Art Taichung, Taichung, Taiwan

          East Gallery, One Art Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan

Awards and Honor

2023              Youth Artistic Power, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2015              Next Art Tainan – A site between, Tainan, Taiwan

2012-2013     Mercedes Benz Financial Services in Farmington Hills, MI, USA

2009             Valcellina Award (finalist), Italy

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