Past
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Chiu Huai-Hsuan：The Hidden Traces in Tree
15 Dec 2022 - 7 Jan 2023 YIRI ARTS Trees, as one of the ancients among the living species in the world, its renewal of life feature follows the Earth's cycle. Their life stages, from being as a wooden material, loaded with its life course, and become the content of creation. The artist collected the track of time, deconstructs... Read more -
Kyoko Shindo : Flowing Slowly Deeply
15 Dec 2022 - 7 Jan 2023 BACK_Y YIRI ARTS is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new works by Kyoko Shindo. On view at the BACK Y from 15 December 2022 – 7 January 2023. Read more -
Maru Quiñonero：CON RUIDO, NO VEO
15 Dec 2022 - 7 Jan 2023 YIRI ARTS Maru Quiñonero returns again and again to one of her favorite Spanish writers, Juan Ramon Jimenez. 'Con ruido, no veo' is one of his aphorisms from the Ideology volume, Maru's bedside book that she always consults when writing about her own work. Of course, the title chosen for this show... Read more -
Taichi Nakamura：Sleepwalking
10 Nov - 3 Dec 2022 BACK_Y My paintings are often like stories that occur in dreams. It may be a sudden recollection of nostalgia in life, rather than trying to track down the memories of previous dreams. Read more
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Chen Sung Chih： Elsewhere
10 Nov - 3 Dec 2022 YIRI ARTS Yiri Arts is delightedly to present Chen Sung Chih: Elsewhere, which will run from November 10 to December 3, 2022. The exhibition features the artist's latest spatial installation and mixed media works, foreground his art practice that engages in the diversification of material, space, and concept. Chen's work always mixes... Read more -
Laba：Love War
22 Sep - 15 Oct 2022 YIRI ARTS When there is a lack of love, we are wired to equate love with longing. Longing becomes hope, and hope turns into faith. The artist has created and presented the gods of pink peach blossoms in his imagination for audiences to make requests to and worship. Working in a humorous... Read more -
Hou Chen-Lu：Observant Mock-Ups
22 Sep - 8 Oct 2022 BACK_Y Covid-19 continues, and plans for family visits are indefinitely on hold. Predators and prey can never live in peace. A bunny named Ginger was forced into exile by the arrival of a dog named Rally. A reallocation of supplies after human deaths during Covid-19. Ginger survived the 23-minutes road trip... Read more -
Butaoxi：The Crying Game
22 Sep - 5 Oct 2022 BACK_Y Butaoxi, born in Taipei, majoring in product design in university. Full-time graphic and illustration designer at early stages, handling record packages and poster visuals, including WeiBird, Bearbabes, Japanese Breakfast, and Bill Callahan. Due to an incident causing both legs injured and fractured, conceiving the idea of ceramic art creation, she... Read more
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Chang Ting-Tong x Hui Tak-Cheung’s Project：Remains For Those Remain
22 Sep - 15 Oct 2022 YIRI ARTS The hair follicle, sebaceous gland, oil, residue, dander, hair matrix, sweat, fiber, keratin, alopecia, hair bulb, keratinization, scleroprotein, melanosomes, amino acid, pH scale, ionic bond, vellus hair, medulla, connective tissue, spinous layer, basal layer, the scent, breath, temperature, voluminousness, viscosity, sound wave, Hertz, medium, longitudinal wave, frequency, wavelength, refraction, interference,... Read more -
Tetsuya Ishiyama：AVATAARA
19 Aug - 10 Sep 2022 BACK_Y Humans create gods in the image of gods, while mythological, gods create humans in their own image. In fact, we have never seen God, we have only seen the incarnation of God, who was created by man after he came to this world. Throughout history, different types of gods have... Read more -
Mònica Subidé ：Painting Through Drawing
19 Aug - 10 Sep 2022 YIRI ARTS YIRI ARTS is pleased to present 'Painting Through Drawing,' a solo exhibition focussing on a new body of work on paper by Mònica Subidé. In her recent work, Mònica continues to employ her unique and intimate visual languages while re-examining the relationship between painting, drawing, and the identity as a... Read more -
Guim Tió Zarraluk：12 Thoughts
19 Aug - 10 Sep 2022 BACK_Y Guim Tió Zarraluk developed his unique style with his first series, 'Magazine Project,' in which he manipulated the facial features of fashion models on magazine covers. The previous series dealing with the landscape of human facial expression, his practice has since expanded to depicting the landscape of the human inner... Read more
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Hsieh Jung-Wei：The Blue Island and North Sea
19 Aug - 10 Sep 2022 YIRI ARTS A solo exhibition, 'East Island and the North Sea' by Hsieh Jung-Wei, continues his exploration of the previous series, East Moonlight, which chased the moonlight to the end of the world. The distance between the earth and the moon is 384,400 kilometres, and if moonlight were to represent time, the... Read more -
Chen Sheng-Wen：Lives Between Us
14 Jul - 6 Aug 2022 BACK_Y In this exhibition, all the works are named after small towns in Taiwan. Though they seem to reflect beautiful scenery and rich life, these places have actually become synonymous with classic pollution in Taiwan. These wounds of the earth, even after media attention, are ignored or even forgotten, be fore... Read more -
Ning Wen：Sex Photographer / AV Director / Artist
14 Jul - 6 Aug 2022 YIRI ARTS In this exhibition, Ning Wen's multiple identities as a sex photographer, AV director, and artist have published two works: the 'Sex Photographer Series' and 'Amateur AV Interview Series.' The 'Sex Photographer Series' collects the different types of desires, from 'good sex' to 'bad sex,' in Gayle S. Rubin's sexual hierarchy.... Read more -
Ken Yi-Wen：Earth and Star
14 Jul - 6 Aug 2022 BACK_Y I would like to turn to soil to nourish the growth of animals. To nurture them with love and light, like the stars that illuminate me, become soft existences. To me, animals are like an extension of the body and the repetition of the soul. I can feel their emotions... Read more
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Tsai Pou-Ching：Three Birds
14 Jul - 6 Aug 2022 YIRI ARTS Tsai Pou-Ching's recent practices often encompassed bird forms. However, birds are not his focus per se, but rather the relationship between humans and animals. As animals, humans can't be isolated from the world. Indeed, in today's world, humans have developed highly complex survival networks and relationships with animals. Therefore, thinking... Read more -
Wu Wei-Ting：Contact Surface
9 Jun - 2 Jul 2022 BACK_Y Inspired by the experience of life, there are many disconnects between living and architectural form. When searching for a definite object, it is akin to randomly walking on an infinite surface. No matter whether in the state of weightlessness, each one is still vaguely attracted by a slight gravitational pull.... Read more -
Wu Wei-Ting：Mushroom Cloud
9 Jun - 2 Jul 2022 BACK_Y Have we tried to calculate the area of the diagonal line? or that of the shaded area? Asking questions inside or outside the bounds of the drawing is in fact a question of calculating the surface area, and it is more concerned with the internal and external relationship between the... Read more -
Made Wiguna Valasara：Carousel
9 Jun - 2 Jul 2022 YIRI ARTS In Carousel, Valasara seems to be dismantling the idea that painting is synonymous to a canvas with clear boundaries or limits. He has taken common Renaissance iconographies (fauna, human forms, angels/cherubs, the Virgin Mary, Jesus, cupids, etc), and reproduced them arbitrarily across the walls of the exhibition space. Original or... Read more
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Sun Pei-Mao：Reveal One’s True Colors
9 Jun - 2 Jul 2022 YIRI ARTS I chose to name the exhibition “Revealed” because my current creative method comes from a more primitive self. When I read in Buddhist scriptures that everyone has an “original face,” I realised that, indeed, as we face various situations in life, we often must become actor and play the role... Read more -
LeeeeeeToy：Earthly Kingdom
7 - 28 May 2022 BACK_Y Welcome to LeeeeeeToy's 'Earthly Kingdom'! This extraordinary world shines with love, joy, and creativity, emitting the super rainbow glow distinctive to LeeeeeeToy's works. The works span painting, sculpture, and mechanical devices, showcasing LeeeeeeToy's imaginative use of diverse materials and multi-layered sensory aesthetics. Starting from nostalgic toys and combining original concepts,... Read more -
Shih Yung-Chun’s Collection：My Toys
7 - 28 May 2022 BACK_Y The vintage toys and old objects that Shih Yung-Chun has loved to collect have often become the protagonists in his paintings. The surreal scenes depict stories sparked by an encounter with unrelated things and events. Shih Yung-Chun creates various 'props' with ready-made toys, ceramic works, fabrics, furniture and characters to... Read more -
Yang Tzu-Yi：Inner Voice
7 - 28 May 2022 YIRI ARTS The virtual and the real appear to be inseparable, and it is difficult to use our perception as a receptor to distinguish the real. We always seem to be swayed by the many external sensations we see, hear, and touch. What is true? This is the question that artist Yang... Read more
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Huang Qi-You：The Bright Moon is High Up
7 - 28 May 2022 YIRI ARTS YIRI ARTS presents Huang Qi-You's first solo exhibition in Taiwan titled, 'The Bright Moon is High up.' The exhibition title, suggests an intuitive assumption that must be related to natural perception. Although the title is taken from one of Qi-You's paintings, a feeling of incongruity may arise when we look... Read more -
Kenzo Taruishi：Blue Bird
9 - 30 Apr 2022 BACK_Y The book 'L'Oiseau Bleu' was written by Belgian author Maurice Maeterlinck in 1908. The blue bird is adopted as the spiritual concept throughout the story, symbolising the eternal pursuit of happiness by human beings. The meaning of the word happiness is supreme beauty, though It also alludes to its changeable... Read more -
KINJO：Blind Gaze
9 - 30 Apr 2022 YIRI ARTS KINJO once said that, since he was a child, he had always been very concerned about other people's eyes or sight. This is the reason that he gave, when he started to use 'eyes' for he inspiration as the recurring theme in his creations. However, he deliberately chose to use... Read more -
Over the Rainbow
9 - 30 Apr 2022 YIRI ARTS Over the Rainbow, a group exhibition curated by YIRI ARTS and Tomio Koyama Gallery. Exhibited artists including Atsushi Fukui, Daisuke Fukunaga, Satoko Nachi, Satoshi Ohno and Midori Sato as well as a Taiwanese art collective, When Pigs Fly, artists including Ho Yen-Yen, Hsu Ting-Jane, Lin Ying-Chieh, Tang Ya-Wen, Tsai Taung-Hsun,... Read more
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Laura Limbourg：Dragon and His Tale
5 - 26 Mar 2022 YIRI ARTS Looking at the paintings of Laura Limbourg (b.1996) is like attending a vaporwave party in Chinatown (Note 1) on a Southeast Asian beach, where naked, youthful women remove their makeup in the heat and humidity, posing for themselves, unconcerned by the gaze of the viewers. In the party, a boy... Read more -
Hsu Yi-Ting：Knock the Floor
5 - 26 Mar 2022 YIRI ARTS Yi Ting Hsu (b.1992) graduated from the School of Fine Arts at the Taipei National University of the Arts in 2016 and then received her master's degree in fine arts from the same university in 2020, prior to that she had participated in a study exchange program at the Academy... Read more -
My Life as a Dog
5 - 26 Mar 2022 BACK_Y My life as a Dog, the first exhibition to launch at Back_Y, borrowed its title from a movie in the 1985. This group exhibition features a number of sculptures by twelve artists, focusing particularly on the complex inner state of a child facing reality as they experience growth, as well... Read more -
Yuichi Hirako：Fallen Leaves
5 - 26 Mar 2022 BACK_Y Yuichi Hirako, born in 1982 in Okayama Prefecture and now working primarily in Tokyo, has been producing art for which themes include the uncertainty and questions raised by coexistence between humans and the natural world. He intentionally portrays a vague representation of the boundaries between the internal (human society) and... Read more
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UGLY
27 Jan - 26 Feb 2022 YIRI ARTS YIRI ARTS' annual curatorial exhibition, UGLY, features the works of eight artists from Taiwan and abroad that delve into the various dimensions of ugliness in contemporary times and the experiences shared by the present-day youth. Unlike the conventional dichotomy between beauty and ugliness, this exhibition aims to explore the diverse... Read more -
Hsieh Yu-Cheng ：Natural sequence
24 Dec 2021 - 19 Feb 2022 YIRI ARTS '......, when one desperately tries to complete the existential physical expression of life or nature, what we end up completing is not the physical, but the methodological form of expression itself, that is, the exhaustive way of expression. ......' -Looking for Paul Cezanne in the Mountain The first digital photograph... Read more -
Chang Chun-Yi：YIRI ‘S HORSE FARM
23 Dec 2021 - 23 Jan 2022 YIRI ARTS One day, I dreamt that I became a human vector. Circling, rocking, galloping…, in the world of vectors, black steeds flit past a crack, running back and forth in a moment's time. As if framed within the webpage, the horses in captivity, dependent on and programmed by the instructions... Read more
