HONG GAH MUSEUM
11F., No.166, Daye Road, Beitou District,
Taipei City 11268 Taiwan
The Oceans And The Interpreters
22. Oct 2022 - 15. Jan 2023
Tue - Sun 10:30-17:30
Closed on Mon
“The Oceans and the Interpreters” endeavors to respond to The Interpreters (1965) by the Nigerian author Wole Soyinka, which talks about several friends of different professions returning to the newly established Nigeria after their study abroad and how they are lost in the identity maze of an emerging nation. “The Oceans and the Interpreters” can be seen as the journey to the pan-African cultural circle the curator embarked on since 2017 and the research result of that phase. In this exhibition, aside from introducing African and Caribbean arts to Asian audiences, it further aims to probe into the artistic perspectives of African-Asian relationships.
The ocean, as a neutral landscape, is nevertheless connected to speech. It has witnessed the rise and fall of nation-states on the continents as well. The narrative of this exhibition seeks to employ the history of the trans-Atlantic African cultural circle as the point of departure, treating the region of the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean as a kind of mirror world. In addition to the attempt to contemplate the African-Asian relationship in contemporary history, it stresses on the winding paths of the African cultural circle and the Asian counterpart as the observer/observee and their interpretations of each other. The exhibition hopes its viewers will come to realize that it is Africa as well as Asia here; it is the modern Tower of Babel as well as a land of exile; it is the ocean as well as a place for the interpreters’ soliloquy.
As a beneficiary of the curatorial program of the National Culture and Arts Foundation, “The Oceans and the Interpreters” is an exhibition of the results produced from the residency research in 2019. A video art exchange exhibition was organized in 2020 and 2021, respectively. Following the trade route that has existed since ancient times, this exhibition will travel to South Asia and the coast of West Africa for display in 2023.
Artists /
AU Sow Yee / Malaysia, Taiwan
CHANG En Man + Temitayo Ogunbiyi / Taiwan + Nigeria
CHE Onejoon / Korea
LIN Jin Da + YU Cheng Che / Taiwan
Salah Elmur / Sudan
Mulugeta Gebrekidan / Ethiopia
HOO Fan Chon / Malaysia
Tirzo Martha / Curaçao
Naeem Mohaiemen / Bangladesh
Carlos Motta / Colombia, USA
Musquiqui Chihying + Elom 20ce + Gregor Kasper / Taiwan, Togo, Germany
Tuan Andrew Nguyen / Vietnam
Posak Jodian / Taiwan
Mark Salvatus / The Philippines
Ousmane Sembène / Senegal
Stefanos Tsivopoulos / Greece
WANG Hong Kai + Lou MO / Taiwan, Canada
YAO Jui Chung + Hank CHENG / Taiwan
Curated by Takamori Nobuo
Organizers /
Chew’s Culture Foundation
Hong Gah Museum
Solid Art
Britto Arts Trust
Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos
Sponsors /
National Culture & Arts Foundation
Tung Ho Steel Enterprise Corp.
Taishin Bank Foundation for Arts and Culture
Partners /
Netherlands Office Taipei
RAVY 2023
Circle Art Gallery
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