Taiwan in Venice 2013
This is not a Taiwan Pavilion. Exhibition of the Taipei Fine Arts Museum. Artists: Bernd Behr, Chia-Wei Hsu, Kateřina Šedá + BATEŽO MIKILU. Curator: Esther Lu. Venue: Palazzo delle Prigioni. 1 June - 24 November 2013.
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Marshal Tie Jia. 2013
Mixed media installation
A long journey begins from unexpected communication with the divine world: Marshal Tie Jia is Chia-Wei Hsu's new mixed media installation, capturing lingering cultural memories and manifesting structures of production and narratives of mythology and imagery. To present the copious research materials from this magical encounter, including the rituals, oracles, ancient Chinese horoscopes, and mythologies of the divine world, in addition to the memories, performances, politics, and histories of the human world, Hsu crosses the boundaries between reality and imagination and develops his work according to the will of the frog god Tie Jia. Meanwhile, he takes a materialist position to release the relevant relations in production. Multiple separate narratives are juxtaposed to establish a new mythology of representation in which the production of narrative becomes the subject that produces reality, traversing questions about unresolved history and reflecting the formation and the disappearance of a cultural identity.
© Photo: Haupt & Binder
This is not a Taiwan Pavilion. Exhibition of the Taipei Fine Arts Museum. Artists: Bernd Behr, Chia-Wei Hsu, Kateřina Šedá + BATEŽO MIKILU. Curator: Esther Lu. Venue: Palazzo delle Prigioni. 1 June - 24 November 2013.