This exhibition attempts to create a parallel space that maintains just enough distance to connect with the real world without being easily swept into the established system, while fostering a sense of open-ended uncertainty. Ultimately it embodies not only a performance that facilitates communication between the viewer, the museum, space and time, society, and nature, but effectively a cultural strategic approach to the real system.
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'Second Brother's Blue Turtledove,' 2024
Giclée print, non-woven carpets, papers, glass, speakers, headphones, antennas
Dimension variable
Huang Po-Chih began a series of conversations with his mother in 2011. Through her recollections, though part of a brief personal history, they mirror the agricultural transformation, economic reform, and social change in Taiwan over the past half century. These stories were compiled in his book The Blue Skin: My Mother's Story, published in 2013.
Second Brother's Blue Turtledove draws from the story about the artist's mother and her brother in The Blue Skin: My Mother's Story. The work reconfigures physical experience, memory, and emotion within a space. The viewer enters an environment where artificial and real turtledove calls overlap. As they move through the space, they encounter various events or listen to stories. Crafting an emotional mise-en-scène, the artist layers familial historical events onto the perceptual experience or personal memory of the viewer. The embodiment of the written word in the performance, as well as the power of discourse that occurs both within and outside the scene, continue to add depth, weight, and an opportunity for dialectical interpretation between personal history and societal transformation.
