YIRI ARTS presents Rainbow at ART TAIPEI 2025, using this natural phenomenon as a point of departure to reflect on its symbolic weight, cultural significance, and emotional resonance across time and place.
A rainbow appears after rain, brief, luminous, and unpredictable. It stretches across the sky, momentarily connecting what is distant, forming one of nature's most gentle yet unwavering bridges. Its appearance, often following disruption or change, has long been read as a sign of hope, renewal, and reconciliation. It belongs to no one, yet it evokes a shared sense of longing, reflection, and possibility.
In Greek mythology, the rainbow was a bridge between Mount Olympus and the human world. Personified as Iris, the goddess of the sky and sea and a divine messenger, she drew water from the earth and scattered it across the clouds, giving rise to the rainbow. This myth reinforces the rainbow's role as a mediator, a passage to the visible andinvisible.
This exhibition considers the rainbow as a transitional gateway, guiding viewers through the present moment into deeper forms of perception and understanding. Featuring artists from Taiwan and abroad, the works span painting, sculpture, and installation. They respond to natural phenomena through sensory experience, reflect on environmental and climatic sensitivity, and explore balance and inner order through color and light. The exhibition also reaches into broader cultural contexts, prompting reflection on identity, difference, and coexistence.
Through this diversity of form and language, the exhibition invites visitors into a space of refraction and transformation. The rainbow never stays long, but when it appears, it makes us pause. Elusive and impossible to define, it mirrors the nature of artistic creation itself-a moment of connection between reality and dream.
