Wu Wei-Ting: Uncanny Dwelling: Solo Exhibition

When we return to the process through which action, perception, and space jointly generate understanding, life is no longer an object to be observed, but a site of creation. As American philosopher Alva Noë points out in Strange Tools, art is not a passive object of viewing, but a tool that compels us to relearn how to perceive, how to attend, and how to establish relations with the world.

Starting from the fundamental nature of the exhibition space, I deliberately loosen its internal order so that space no longer functions as a neutral background. Taking "unconscious somnambulistic adventure" as the point of departure for the sculptural environment, I construct a practical system that guides action, shapes perception, and generates understanding. Through structural assumptions and metaphors, walls, circulation paths, and lighting are reconfigured and rendered provisional. Space is transformed into an environment that must be navigated and responded to, rather than a system that can be immediately decoded.

The animals that appear in the exhibition function as perceptual interfaces. Beginning with familiar signs of life, they are placed within non-everyday spatial relations, operating as sculptural triggers that shift perception. In this condition, objects awaiting interpretation become "strange tools" that intervene in action and perception, prompting a renewed awareness of how we move within constructed spaces, institutional frameworks, and modes of seeing.

Suspended between humor and unease, the visual and spatial experience I create produces a momentary pause-one that allows us to step out of familiar rhythms of life and re-perceive a reality still in the process of being shaped. Through layered hypothetical conditions, ruptures, and the reconfiguration of paths, viewers are encouraged to rely more on the immediacy of bodily perception as they move and pause, entering a semi-conscious state akin to sleepwalking.