Wu Wei-Ting in ‘Weeds Don’t Obey’ at MoCA TAIPEI | MoCA TAIPEI 11 July - 20 September 2026 - Installation Views

Artist Wu Wei-Ting participates in Weeds Don't Obey, a group exhibition at MoCA TAIPEI, curated by Christina Szu-Yin Chen.

Taking plant migration, proliferation, and adaptation as its point of departure, the exhibition reconsiders the shifting boundaries between the native and the foreign, nature and artificiality, belonging and otherness. As human-made borders become increasingly rigid, plants continue to move across geographical and political divisions, generating their own pathways through urban cracks and unnamed spaces.

For the exhibition, Wu employs "lint rolling" as a method of collection, repurposing a domestic tool traditionally used to remove dust and lint by applying it to the surfaces of outdoor lawns. The roller gathers not only grass clippings, pollen, and seeds, but also pollutants, dust, and urban sediment. Blurred, distorted, and resistant to classification, these residues reveal the continuous exchange between natural and urban environments.

Wu's work further considers the lawn as a constructed landscape shaped by mowing, planning, and maintenance, while the city itself remains permeable to plant life emerging through pavement cracks, wall corners, and peripheral spaces. Installed along the corridor, Curtain incorporates images of weeds found outside MoCA TAIPEI, creating visual overlaps and displacements that blur the boundaries between interior and exterior, image and reality.

Curator｜Christina Szu-Yin Chen

Organizers｜Taipei Culture Foundation and MoCA TAIPEI

Supervisor｜Department of Cultural Affairs, Taipei City Government

Grant Support｜ Ministry of Culture

Photo Credit : Courtesy of the artist and MoCA TAIPEI

Photography: Wang Shih-Yuan