Senang Bertemu Kembali (Nice to Meet You Again) — Spatial Project by Hsieh Jung-Wei: Group Exhibition

To celebrate our first anniversary in Jakarta, YIRI ARTS is thrilled to announce our upcoming group exhibition, Senang Bertemu Kembali, opening on June 27, 2026. Bringing together works by four exceptional Taiwanese artists (Chiu Huai-Hsuan, Hsieh Jung-Wei, Jiang Meng-Si, and Keng Chieh-Sheng), the exhibition reflects on the shared trajectories, cross-cultural dialogues, and encounters that have shaped the gallery's presence in Jakarta over the past year.

At the center of the exhibition is Beacon, a spatial project by Hsieh Jung-Wei. Taking the lighthouse as a conceptual point of departure, Hsieh treats light not as a passive subject for depiction, but as an active medium that triggers perception.Comprisingreflective lines, light-based sculptures, and paintings, Beacon transforms the gallery into an immersive site. 

Visitors will be invited to explore the darkened space equipped with headlamps, causing forms and surfaces to appear and vanish based on their own physical movements.Through this interactive experience, Hsieh profoundly reconfigures the relationship between artwork, viewer, and site, proposing light as a dynamic medium through which space is continually discovered.

Spatial Project: Beacon - Hsieh Jung-Wei

A lighthouse is not intended to illuminate everything. Rather, it emits a signal that can be recognized from afar-a point of reference that marks a direction and allows one to reorient themselves within a larger landscape. Taking this notion of light as its point of departure, Beacon proposes viewing not as a fixed act of observation, but as a process of searching, approaching, and identifying within space.

The exhibition unfolds within a brightly lit environment. Visitors are invited to wear headlamps and navigate through walls, columns, beams, paintings, and sculptures, tracing subtle presences that might otherwise remain unnoticed. Reflective lines, light-based sculptures, and paintings are situated within a shared perceptual system; they recede into their surroundings until a beam of light approaches, momentarily revealing contours, fields of color, and reflections.

For Hsieh Jung-Wei, the artwork is not a representation of light, but a vessel through which light becomes perceptible. As viewers move through the space carrying their own source of illumination, walls cease to function merely as architectural backgrounds, paintings extend beyond the flatness of their surfaces, and sculptures become more than static objects. The exhibition unfolds like a map that has yet to be fully deciphered, revealing how light, mediated through materials, architecture, and the moving body, can reshape our perception of space.