Neiwei: Here, Then, Our Stories

Over the past three hundred years, Neiwei has transformed from a farming village into an urban community, with its history vividly embedded in its temples, alleys and market conversations. Through artistic creations, the exhibition interweaves the past and the present, Neiwei and its periphery.

The Taiwan-based Dutch artist Pascal VAN DER GRAAF employs folded canvas and metallic paint to simulate the multiple dimensions of time and space. Lily DE BONT’s work, Circle Parts Rotating, symbolizes the cycle of history and the representation of memory. A Tribute to Birth by Ying-Ting CHEN uses rust-dyed baby singlets to embody the hope and vitality of new life. Holly JAMES vividly depicts the traces of time in Neiwei with animation. Through weaving, Yuma TARU’s Journey of Culture bears the memory of migration, featuring the flow and cohesion of the ethnic culture. Image of Things by CHENG Hsiu-Ju focuses on everyday objects to evoke emotional memories. These works are juxtaposed with the old photographs of Neiwei, fostering visual dialogues between history and the present and representing diverse temporal and spatial dimensions of Neiwei.

The exhibition also invites viewers to act as weavers of time and space, and thus to re-explore themselves. It is because “finding” is never a matter of waiting, but of creating.

Artists

Pascal VAN DER GRAAF

Lily DE BONT

Yuma TARU

CHENG Hsiu-ju

Holly JAMES

CHEN Ying-Ting

Curatorial Team｜Pascal VAN DER GRAAF, YANG Yawen

Exhibition Executive｜CHENG Ya-Ping

Exhibition Designer｜Fast Dreaming International

Exhibition Installation｜Crown Van Lines Co., Ltd

Exhibition Lighting Designer｜Mad B Ltd.

Supervisor｜Bureau of Cultural Affairs Kaohsiung City Government

Organizer｜Kaohsiung museum of Fine Arts

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