Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei
39 Chang'an West Road,
Datong, Taipei, Taiwan
Exhibition view There Are Lights That Never Go Out, 2021 © MoCA Taipei
There Are Lights That Never Go Out
Opening Hours /
27. July - 19. Sep 2021
Tue - Sun 10:00-18:00
Closed on Mon
Curator/
Yen Yi Lee
Artist/
Musquiqui Chihying
There Are Lights That Never Go Out is inspired by the Mandarin title of Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up, which engages in the deconstruction and a dialectic process based on objects, photographic technologies, image history and the generative network of digital image apart from discussing the power relation between a photographer and his photographic subject. Objects and stories, when we see or learn about them, all carry full yet fragmented narratives. As the artist makes his observations, he also decides on his angle to carry out his research; like pulling an end of a thread strongly, the whole structure of a piece of fabric then becomes ruffled and shown. By reinterpreting images, creating drawings that imitate machine-made prints and conducting a lecture performance, the artist presents narrative remake and reconstruction through his research of image...
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Installation view The Lighting, 2021, Three-Chanel Video Installation © MoCA Taipei / Anpis Wang
Installation view The Kung Flu, 2021, Two-Chanel Video Lecture Performance © MoCA Taipei / Anpis Wang
Installation view The Chat, 2021, Graphite on paper and colour printed wallpaper © MoCA Taipei
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