Tsai Pou-Chin: In the Course of Seven Days: Solo Exhibition

In the Course of Seven Days constructs a contemporary allegory transcending geography and mortality. Centered on a deceased raccoon encountered during a residency in New York, the exhibition synthesizes the Taiwanese "seven-day funeral" ritual with the structure of Boccaccio's Decameron to examine the scale of nature at the urban fringe. By transforming the soil of the animal's passing into a functional ceramic plate, Tsai internalizes death as a form of persistence.

 

The series The Birds of New York further deconstructs classical avian atlases, replacing idealized wilderness with concrete realities to reveal an ecology in a state of "becoming" amidst man-made landscapes. Through video, ceramics, and painting, Tsai redefines the fluid boundaries between humanity, animality, and civilization.