許喬彥
Hsu Chiao-Yen
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Artist Statement

My works have always been dedicated to the recording of the many ongoing, yet fading "memories and traces" in life. For us, traces could either be a specific fact caused by a previous event, or the sometimes clear, sometimes blurry memories left behind in our mind.

My works in the past years were based on cheap materials in our daily life, such as charcoal, paper boxes, canvas, plastic bags, etc. With such painting techniques as spreading and covering, I put these materials through visual re-creation by means of abstract measurement in new spatial frameworks, with the aim to expose the undisguised spatial texts of human desire through the new constructions. In the various profiles I created in the past, the relationships between human, space and substances served as the directional orientations of sensory memories, in which the images of places were demonstrated as time packages. Between the layers of time and space, "preservation/fading" and "sense/sensibility" were juxtaposed in a conflicting manner, thus outlining people's imaginative experiences when their daily memories were disturbed.

In the current exhibition "Wafer (A Biscuit)", wafers (a thin, hard biscuit sandwiched with layers of soft fillings) are used as a laminated metaphor, signifying my attempt to create a humorous dialog between the works through the mixing and juxtaposition of different materials. The display "Just about right" is a sculpture featuring contradictions. One part of it (cream and wax) melts with the environment, while the other (white paint) hardens with the external elements. Temperature is thus the unpredictable element for the deformations in the work, forming a visual presentation of the mutations of organic matters. The smell in the air will consolidate the audience's sensory imaginations through subjective olfactory permeation. The two parts would thus seem to be whispering to each other between the visibility and invisibility. "Ah" creates a limited yet beautiful boundary through the fusion of a cotton quilt and transparent films. Within this space, in the quilt that is filled with traces, an internal narrative featuring sweetness and struggles is thus induced. The audience will feel partly waken up, but partly still in dream, partly in reality, and partly in fantasy, trapped in these mixed sensory experiences.

In the past, the real space has always been my container of emotions. But now, “Wafer (A Biscuit)” is concerned with the presentation of the hidden situations inside. If the human body is the container of soul, it is just there that is hidden our fading individual tastes.

 

 
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