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Ana Malta：MENU
15 Feb - 8 Mar 2025 YIRI ARTS In Portugal, where the artist is from, a meal is not truly just, or at all, about food. Is about sharing, not just the necessary act of eating, but something of ourselves with others. Following this idea, the exhibition is arranged just as such - a menu for a banquet... Read more -
Evi Pangestu：Overthinking Squares
15 Feb - 8 Mar 2025 YIRI ARTS Text/ Gumilar Ganjar Evi Pangestu reimagines the square as more than just geometry—it becomes a site of control, fairness, and rebellion. Her Structure Control series, featuring Forced Interaction and Overthinking Squares, unfolds through vortical processes of squaring, de-squaring, and re-squaring. By disrupting foundational structures while simultaneously offering resolution, Evi’s practice... Read more -
Anthrozoology
26 Dec 2024 - 25 Jan 2025 YIRI ARTS The exhibition Anthrozoology brings together works by five contemporary artists—Taiwanese artists Tsai Pou-Ching, Chen Sheng-Wen and Lin Kuan-Yin, Chinese artist Huang Qi-You, and Indonesian artist M. Irfan. Through diverse mediums such as painting, textiles, photography and video, these artists explore the multifaceted ways humans interact, influence, and coexist with the... Read more -
Keng Chieh-Sheng: Rise Again
26 Dec 2024 - 25 Jan 2025 YIRI ARTS What distinguishes a wooden plank from a living plant? In this solo exhibition, Keng Chieh-Sheng reexamines this question by placing both on a timeline, viewing them as different states of the same material—one inert and the other alive. Can this linear understanding of time be disrupted, allowing materials to return... Read more
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Yasuhiro Maruo: Beyond Time and Space
23 Nov - 14 Dec 2024 YIRI ARTS Born in 1956 in Yamaga City, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, Yasuhiro Maruo graduated from Tokyo Zokei University's Faculty of Fine Arts with a major in sculpture in 1982. In 1985, he participated in the Chiguma Sculpture Symposium in Hokkaido. Yasuhiro Maruo has held solo exhibitions in many significant art museums, including... Read more -
Tomonari Nakayashiki: Inner Flesh
23 Nov - 14 Dec 2024 YIRI ARTS Text/ Tomonari Nakayashiki One day, while out for a walk, a thought casually crossed my mind: “The characters for ‘inner’ (內) and ‘flesh’ (肉) are strikingly similar.” This sparked my curiosity to delve deeper into the connection between these two words. The characters for “inner” and “flesh” are not only... Read more -
The Metamorphosis—Group Exhibition
19 Oct - 16 Nov 2024 YIRI ARTS In 1924, as the world was still reeling from the upheaval of World War I and the influenza pandemic, the first Surrealist Manifesto was published in Paris. It embodied a powerful spirit of anarchism and revolution, striving to develop means of resisting oppressive systems and imagining a future founded on... Read more -
Heidi Hassan：Inner Landscape—The Sacred Journey of Creation and Self-Discovery
19 Oct - 16 Nov 2024 YIRI ARTS Of the years, I've been learning to cope with the guilt that comes from isolating myself from everything to immerse obsessively in my inner self. Systematically, when I start working, I am overwhelmed by a sense of guilt for not being involved in external life: in the important dates of... Read more
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Taichi Nakamura: Where Are We?
12 Sep - 12 Oct 2024 YIRI ARTS Japanese artist Taichi Nakamura, born in 1982 in Hiratsuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture, graduated from the Department of Painting at Tokyo Zokei University in 2008. His formative years unfolded in the early 1980s, a period marked by Japan's robust economic growth and vibrant societal energy, reaching the pinnacle of the economic... Read more -
Hojan: The Visible Range Is Not Wide Enough
12 Sep - 12 Oct 2024 YIRI ARTS When sensation occurs, our perception processes all sensory stimuli and converts them into a form of energy the brain can understand, thus activating cognitive abilities. However, to make sense of the complicated world, it is easy for us to fall into the mindset of binary oppositions. In such dichotomies, anything... Read more -
Wu Chien-Hsing: Black Hand of Craftsmanship II
10 Aug - 7 Sep 2024 YIRI ARTS 'Black Hand of Craftsmanship II' explores the concept of transformation and handcrafted reconstruction. This exhibition features a series of works collaboratively produced by artist Wu Chien-Hsing and skilled mechanics. Using the mechanics' daily vehicle repair tasks as a starting point, the exhibition invites the mechanics to work together to shape... Read more -
Li Shih-Wen: Into The…
10 Aug - 7 Sep 2024 YIRI ARTS After spending more than a decade in the central and southern regions, with frequent trips to the north, I have become accustomed to spending a lot of time traveling. In fact, I have come to look forward to watching the scenery go by, daydreaming, and taking brief naps along the... Read more
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Daydreamer
27 Jun - 27 Jul 2024 YIRI ARTS 'Daydreamer' brings together five artists from Taiwan, France, the Czech Republic, and Japan. Each artist addresses the anxieties and uncertainties of daily life, exploring the blurred lines between individual and society, fantasy and reality. This approach, akin to the autopilot mode of daydreaming, challenges the boundaries of reality, transforming restlessness... Read more -
Keiko Miyagawa: Imagine the land while underwater
27 Jun - 27 Jul 2024 YIRI ARTS Imagine the land while underwater Even if we believe we are different and find ourselves in opposition, I hope we can remember that we are, after all, the same kind of living beings. Even if you live on land, you can surely build a friendly relationship with the one who... Read more -
James Rielly：The Sun Shines on Everyone
16 May - 15 Jun 2024 YIRI ARTS James Rielly, a British artist, born in 1956, lives and works in France, he is a Professor at the Beaux-arts de Paris, regularly exhibits his works internationally and to great acclaim. Rielly’s works are subtle yet inherently dark, his use of humour and images to tell stories are a constant... Read more -
Liao Yuan-Yi：In Here Somewhere
16 May - 15 Jun 2024 YIRI ARTS Liao Yuan-Yi, born in Taipei, graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at Taiwan University of Arts with a Bachelor's degree and obtained a Master's degree from Kyoto University of Arts. His work focuses on communication and loneliness among people. Whether it's the difficulties or happiness in communication with others,... Read more
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亞歷山大．塞巴斯丁 : Titik Dari：Constellations of From
13 Apr - 4 May 2024 YIRI ARTS In ‘Titik Dari’ which means points of from, Sebastianus questions the locality of ‘belonging’ within the memories of our past and how we make sense of the varying dimensions it can take form. Alexander Sebastianus Hartanto ritualizes the act of recalling a memory through intertwining two generational methods of memory... Read more -
Tomoko Hauswa: Elixir
13 Apr - 4 May 2024 YIRI ARTS 'I want to paint abstract paintings that have never been seen before. To make this happen, I believe one method is to find and depict objects in paintings without clear subjects. But this seems like a contradictory concept and makes the creative process very challenging, almost drowning me in the... Read more -
Chang Teng-Yuan: LAYER
29 Feb - 30 Mar 2024 YIRI ARTS The boundary between reality and illusion has always been something I try to navigate. With the rise of AI technology, I feel that the line between reality and illusion is rapidly disappearing. I employ the creation of illusionary characters and futuristic apocalyptic story structures as a technique, using the unreal... Read more -
Munehiro Yoshimura: Woman With Cedar Seedings
29 Feb - 30 Mar 2024 YIRI ARTS Read more
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A Decade Ago
11 Jan - 7 Feb 2024 YIRI ARTS In 2024, YIRI ARTS proudly presents its first exhibition of the year, ”A Decade Ago,” commemorating a significant ten-year milestone. This exhibition features a selection of 20 artists who not only representing the developmental journey of YIRI ARTS but also shape the essence of 'YIRI'. Our curation aims to showcase... Read more -
AYA ITO : UNFORTUNATELY I LOVE YOU
9 - 30 Dec 2023 YIRI ARTS The first solo exhibition at YIRI ARTS, ‘Unfortunately I love you,' showcases a significant series of new works by the Japanese artist Aya Ito. This exhibition hints at a blend of melancholy, love, and introspection woven into her diverse artistic expression. It may evoke a feeling of fragmented stories or... Read more -
Ayumi Fukumoto
9 - 30 Dec 2023 YIRI ARTS Read more -
Chen Yun：Entering the Dissipating Fog of Fragments Light
3 Nov - 2 Dec 2023 YIRI ARTS Text/ Chen Yun Facing reality, we unconsciously assemble its other metaphors. The unexplored aspects of things are the intangible emotions and imaginations. From the moment they connect with the sea of memories, they break free from the constraints of the present reality and space-time. These summoned fragments lurk beneath consciousness... Read more
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Ｗang Hsiao-Ai : River of Retrospection
3 Nov - 2 Dec 2023 YIRI ARTS Text/ Ｗang Hsiao-Ai To survive, humans seek out sources of water. I walk along the riverbank, pummeled by flooding and strong currents. On the brink of being washed away, the river stones become my writing instruments. I collect, organize, and arrange each stone, creating a record of my life. The... Read more -
LI Cheng-Liang：Next Stop After Ten Thousand Years Station
21 Sep - 21 Oct 2023 YIRI ARTS Text/ Li Cheng-Liang How do we construct our own lives? How do we prepare for the journey ahead? And how do we discover effective ways to rest?? These significant life matters, which we navigate over the course of several decades, often leave us flummoxed. The exhibition, 'The Next Stop at... Read more -
Shoko Mihira：Humanity？
21 Sep - 14 Oct 2023 YIRI ARTS Japanese artist Shoko Mihira utilised tempered glass to create 3D monsters. During the burning process, real-life people and entities are transformed into surreal creatures. From the artist perspective, monsters and humans are not very different. They both have lives, joys, and sorrows; only their appearance is slightly different. Read more -
Lu Yi-Lin：Slip Away Once in a While
17 Aug - 9 Sep 2023 YIRI ARTS 'Each image may reveal a forest, awaiting your arrival.' The showcased artworks revolve around the realm of photography, serving as a conduit across time and encapsulating the multifaceted meanings it can convey. For the artist Lu Yi-Lin, this realm transforms into a playground of unrestricted reminiscence. The absence of an... Read more
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Chang Kai-Chun：Neither Storm Nor Sunshine
17 Aug - 9 Sep 2023 YIRI ARTS This exhibition is a condensed representation of my explorations in painting over the past two years. Diverging from faithfully depicting light as before, in the past year, I have embraced a painting style that emphasizes texture and materiality. The showcased artworks revolve around the concepts of 'windows' and 'scenery,' delving... Read more -
Kyoko Shindo：Duality
15 Jul - 5 Aug 2023 YIRI ARTS Kyoko Shindo's practices draw inspiration from everyday life experiences and undergo a process of introspection. Similar to the perpetual cycle of life, where organisms flourish and propagate through the symbiotic relationship between microorganisms and nutrients in the soil, eventually returning to the earth to foster new life, Shindo strives to... Read more -
Yuan Hsin-Yuan: A Faint Sound
15 Jul - 5 Aug 2023 YIRI ARTS The term 'Diàn Diàn' embodies the concept of a subtle auditory experience that remains elusive amidst a cacophonous environment. Only those present or in close proximity can perceive its existence. It serves as a voyage into tranquility and introspection amid bustling surroundings. In the face of monotonous daily routines, there... Read more -
Mai Yokoyama：Hidden Mountain
10 Jun - 1 Jul 2023 YIRI ARTS The solo exhibition, titled 'Hidden Mountain,' revolves around a series of new paintings by Mai Yokoyama. The exhibition takes inspiration from the cultural artifacts left behind by the 'Hidden Christian' movement during the strict prohibition of Christianity in Japan's Tokugawa Shogunate era (17th-18th century). Last summer, Mai Yokoyama embarked on... Read more
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Ong Hong Chuan：What If ?
10 Jun - 1 Jul 2023 YIRI ARTS “The prophecy of a madman: The coming of the Giant, manifest both as infernal hellfire and celestial paradise. For some shall deem it a gateway to damnation, while others shall proclaim it a glimpse of divine bliss. Abandon your futile quest, for the Earth itself is the forgotten paradise we... Read more -
Cai Ruei-Heng：Slippery Game
11 May - 3 Jun 2023 YIRI ARTS Reasons for Running Again Text/ Chen Hsi It has started running again. Perhaps, the last time it did so was years ago, when it escaped from the factory that engendered its sense of alienation. The story of passion came to an end, while reality continued on. Those existential anxieties, once... Read more -
WU CHIEH-FAN：Big Shot Bookstore
11 May - 3 Jun 2023 YIRI ARTS YIRI ARTS is pleased to present 'Big Shot Bookstore ,' a solo exhibition by Wu Chieh-Fan. Through the mediums of graffiti, drawings, and art books, the artist offers reflections on the struggles and absurdities of existence, delving into the complexities of human nature and life. Central to the exhibition are... Read more -
Wu Quan-En & Chou Yen-Hsu： Sunday in Wanhua
8 - 29 Apr 2023 YIRI ARTS The exhibition 'Sunday in Wanhua ' offers viewers an opportunity to reflect on their relationship with the environment by examining the bustling district of Wanhua from various angles. The modified garbage truck situated in the district prompts viewers to look deeper and engage with their surroundings. Through the use of... Read more
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KINJO：Transparent Gardener
8 - 29 Apr 2023 YIRI ARTS Kinjo's solo exhibition ' Transparent Gardener' explores the symbolic nature of the eye as an extension of our communicative language, drawing inspiration from its use as a common motif in animation and film. Through this work, Kinjo delves into the concept of perception and the power of the gaze, examining... Read more -
Earthworm and Dust
2 - 25 Mar 2023 YIRI ARTS The exhibition entitled 'Earthworm and Dust ' marks a momentous collaboration between two distinguished artists, Tang Ya-Wen and Wei Po-Jen. The title suggests the small-scale, fragmented energies that permeate everyday life and the natural world, magnified through a microscopic lens to encompass the broader spectrum of existence. This exhibition explores... Read more -
Wang Guan-Jhen : Breathing Ghost
27 Jan - 18 Feb 2023 YIRI ARTS When reviewing artist Guan-Jhen Wang's painting creations from 2014 to 2022, 2020 is a turning point. Previously, she mainly used acrylic paint as a medium, and after 2020, she began to use oil paint to create. In addition to plane painting, there were also space installations and painting cloth atlases... Read more -
Wu Chia-Yun： Five, Four, Three, Two
27 Jan - 18 Feb 2023 YIRI ARTS The film responds to Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus, focusing on accepting fate rather than resisting it. The film generalizes the myth across the unrelated lives of three people eventually connected in their peaceful cycle of passing the boulder, without beginning or ending, joy or sorrow. The artist presents... Read more
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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 -
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 -
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... Read more -
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
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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
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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 -
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... 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 -
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
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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 -
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... 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 and... Read more
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Hou Chen-Lu：A triangle, 3:34 to 6:16 pm, a time-visible triangle
25 Nov - 11 Dec 2021 YIRI ARTS It's easy to fall into the exact scene of a childhood memory embedded in the cracks of everyday life. Summer was always sultry, the whole family slept on the ground of the living room, one quilt, bamboo mat on top. The fan was shaking its head from side to side... Read more -
Kaleidoscope
25 Nov - 11 Dec 2021 YIRI ARTS Each rotation of the kaleidoscope makes the world in front of us unknown unexpectedly. Where one mirror after another is the kaleidoscope that we were familiar with when we were young, just like the scenery of every moment in life. Looking at the nine participating artists works seem as if... Read more -
TEXO
30 Oct - 20 Nov 2021 YIRI ARTS What are the possibilities for the narrative of threads? The relationship between the terms Text, Textile, and Texture is very interesting and, somehow, poetic. They derive from the Latin 'Texo', which means 'to weave' words and sentences. The sensuality of the intertwining threads passing through the fingertips is like the... Read more -
Chen Wei-Chen：Silver Dust
16 Oct - 20 Nov 2021 YIRI ARTS Captured virtual light and shadows from the sequence and repetitive industrial creations, just as a complete but unreal object that exists in a different space. Fingers wiping over the silver dust. The observation of everyday objects as the starting point, extending to self-experience, cultural identity and environmental awareness, presenting the... Read more
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Wei Po-Jen：Dark Wall
24 Sep - 22 May 2021 YIRI ARTS 'When examining the many bizarre rituals from primitive tribes and great civilizations of the past, these rituals lead people across those difficult gates of transformation-requiring both conscious and unconscious change in life patterns.... The so-called growth rituals that figured prominently in the life of primitive societies (rites of birth, naming,... Read more -
Ong Hong-Chuan：The Many Headed “Monsters” or is it The Many Headed Gods ?
16 Sep - 9 Oct 2021 YIRI ARTS The Many Headed 'Monsters' or is it The Many Headed Gods? In Greek Mythology, we remember Zeus as the father and king of all Greek's gods, many of his heroic off springs killing monsters to save mankind. So where do all these monsters come from? Who created these monsters? Then... Read more -
Mile End
16 Sep - 16 Oct 2021 YIRI ARTS Mile End is the name of a place located in the East End of London, which means 'one mile from a small village'. If you pick up your smartphone and search for East End, the internet will tell you that it is home to a large number of poor people... Read more -
Daniel Sueiras Fanjul：How to be Animal
12 Aug - 4 Sep 2021 YIRI ARTS 'We expected the executioner's axe to fall at any moment, but the truth was we would die ignorant and enslaved.' -Isle of Dogs Compared with our more dexterous primate cousins, humans have been able to utilize superior intellect, modern medicine, and technology to significantly extend our lifespans. Through natural selection... Read more
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Chen Yu-Erh：A Fleeting Eternity
12 Aug - 4 Sep 2021 YIRI ARTS Yu-Erh Chen‘s art practice centered on animal protection. She often creates sculpture to eternalize her relationships with wildlife. Using lacquer as her medium, Chen creates specimen-like sculptures that show her intimate link to these animals; she presents them at their best to make up for a sense of loss. Chen... Read more -
Summer War
1 - 31 Jul 2021 YIRI ARTS YIRI ARTS is delighted to presents a large-scale group exhibition of works from eight Japanese artists in July this year. The exhibition was named SUMMER WARS . Art is an approach of communication between creators and society, and the people, which is its core purpose and value. Through the works... Read more -
Peihang Benoit：All Her Bright Times
29 Apr - 22 May 2021 YIRI ARTS When looking back to the past, we realize that our experience of growing up is always inseparable from ideologies such as 'nation/family' or patriarchy'. The resistance to patriarchy that extends from the so-called 'always to be a child' is also engraved in life as the years pass. This is also... Read more -
Lai Wei-Yu：A Tiny Exhibition
25 Mar - 17 Apr 2021 YIRI ARTS Artist Lai Wei-yu's world of art is like Fellini's Trojan Horse, depicting the strange masses in exaggerated festive celebration. Transitioning from realistic portraits to the fantastic, symbolic, and dramatic style seen now, Lai takes seemingly absurd situations and explores them with a childish wonder, creating paintings reminiscent of Fellini's rainbow... Read more
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Chen Hsiang-Fu：Strategies of Cartography
25 Mar - 17 Apr 2021 YIRI ARTS 當代生活中人們非常依賴Google Map、Google Earth、衛星空照圖、導航系統等科技。讓人們常有一種錯覺，好像地球上已無未知之處。然而2012年曾經有一座只存在於地圖裡的島 - Sandy Island ( Phantom island )，它被海圖及google map標記於澳洲東北邊的珊瑚海上，這座島卻不是因為海平面上升而淹沒消失，它本身的出現便是源自於人類的錯誤。這個例子顯露出主流地圖系統的破綻，如果地圖上的Sandy Island從不存在，那我們怎能確定地圖上所描繪的其他地點是真有其地？當Sandy Island遭到抹除，迫使我們了解，科技與訊息中呈現的世界或許不盡然是真實的。 當Google Map聲稱讓人類覽盡全世界，但其實Google Map不只是使用衛星照片，他們也倚賴多種資料，其中還包括過時的地圖，也有些國防機密、核電廠不會被記錄在其中。地圖是一個恆常變動結果，從國家、邊界、政治關係都有可能會改變地圖中的資訊。我們從中得知的世界通常是由國家允許，或者科技公司所（被允許）透露的資訊組成，而非真實。 而製圖(Cartography)是在其中不可或缺的技術工具，用來描述某個抽象體系關係的工具。從地形圖、道路地圖到心靈認知地圖(mental cartography)等等，製圖(Cartography)通常會依照不同的目的而生產圖面，一個國家的領土地圖時常是一份最直白的政治宣言。在我們熟悉的世界地圖中，哪些資訊是公開的，而哪些又會被隱藏，哪些重點會被強化了，哪些又會被模糊帶過，我開始質疑各種地圖被生產的方式和動機。 隨著這些質疑，我調查了以城市和地理區位為驅動力所發生的事件：當國家或各種企業組織，運用圖學所進行的社會介入。無論是以圖學作為基礎進行的，或刻意隱藏地圖中的資訊的舉動，又或者是以圖學為基礎產生的治理機制。其中的動機、技巧和最終目的與成果。都是我研究的範圍。希望從研究中找出，國家或科技企業的控制邏輯與破綻。在人類全面進入科技時代之際，資訊看似方便取得，卻是不是也隱藏了什麼意圖？ 而我身為公民、身為使用者，該如何看待資訊、該如何懷疑、該如何身處其中了解自己可能的限制與自由？ 「幻境副本」- 製圖學上的謬誤 在不同宗教的脈絡下，時常記載著伊甸園、地上樂園、極樂世界、天堂等等對於遠處樂土的想像，供應人們對於現世苦難的安慰。例如在中世紀的世界地圖通常將東方畫在我們現今認為的北方，在這個極東處的頂端有耶穌 。但隨著科技進步，將世界探索的一覽無遺之後，對於樂園的幻想破滅，如碦爾文神學家也承認樂園或許已經在洪水中消失，但是上帝還喜愛人類，讓地球上留有樂園的遺跡。 換而言之，人類需要樂園的存在，而因為太迫切的需要，罔顧現實與科學，描繪出各種謬誤地圖。以Sandy Island 為例 , 這個不曾存在的島嶼曾被記載於海圖、通用地圖和Google Map上，在還未被證實是一座不存在的島嶼之時，卻有網民在Google Map上傳了假的景觀照，等恍若曾經拜訪過島嶼的內容。但這座島嶼本身，和島嶼之上的房子山脈和地景照全屬虛構。若我們深究其緣故，或許人們不願意相信那座島只是單純的標記失誤，而更傾向將地圖上的誤差視為夢想之地，在Google Map上幻想這座幽靈島嶼的可能。 收集製圖上的幽靈島嶼地理資料、影像、世界座標，利用3D列印數位再製這些幽靈島嶼，並且規劃以台灣為起始點，前往此島的虛擬路徑列印為船票，以投射出人們探索夢想之地的純真幻象。 地圖作為人類探索世界或者是管理世界的工具，也投射出人類對於空間的慾望。人們總認為世界上存在尚未被發現的處女地，向外探索是人類原始的渴望。而探索中的傳奇軼聞也為強化了其神秘與吸引力。人們克服重重阻礙，突破奇異的島嶼迷障、抵禦暗伏的神秘怪物，最終來到了幻境入口。 然而這一切都不真實，只是認知偏誤讓謬誤樂園如此栩栩如生。 Read more -
Tomoko Hasuwa：Licht
20 Feb - 13 Mar 2021 YIRI ARTS 19th-century Impressionist artists Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, Gauguin, and Van Gogh would venture from their studios in pursuit of light, capturing raw intuitive impressions with swift brush strokes. In the same way, French Impressionist composer Claude Debussy 's piano pieces could transform light into the endlessly diverse changing sounds of nature.... Read more -
Li Shih-Wen：The Wild
20 Feb - 13 Mar 2021 YIRI ARTS 'The Wild', as the exhibition attempts to describe, refers to the state of things that constantly flow under the cover of time, but are never rid of their original status. In this way, 'The Wild' narrates an all-embracing position: whether it is a vast forest or a rapidly changing city,... Read more -
Shih Yung-Chun：Resume
8 Jan - 6 Feb 2021 YIRI ARTS I'm always confused about the time of my birth, as it seems to be noon, then I heard it's dusk. This is not very important, but I can't get the real answer when my friends talk about the rising constellation. In the end, I just pick the one I like... Read more
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Uncooperative Movement
Laura Limbourg, Jan Soumar 21 Oct - 22 Nov 2020 YIRI ARTS Laura Limbourg, hailing from Belgium and currently studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, draws inspiration from her six-month journey in Southeast Asia. Her paintings depict exotic jungle flora, Asian religious symbols and statues, as well as persecuted sex workers on city streets. Laura deliberately captures the naked... Read more -
Chang Chun-Yi & Chang Kai-Chun：A Pale View of Hills
10 Sep - 4 Oct 2020 YIRI ARTS 'I believe that taste, smell, color, etc. exist in consciousness. Therefore, if there is no living being, these qualities also cease to exist.' - Galileo Artists have played the role of observers and recorders in the history of human culture. As many diverse individuals in different times and spaces exist,... Read more -
Wu Chia-Yun：A Song for Loss
6 - 30 Aug 2020 YIRI ARTS Since my study in 2008, my practice centres on the research and production of fictional filmmaking. My motivations to question the potentiality of image has led to an experimental exploration with materials and forms. My former experience in filmmaking has allowed me to apply the technique of film narration, mise... Read more -
Wang Yu-Song：Being in Both Formosa
4 - 26 Jul 2020 YIRI ARTS The incident occurred in the week following 2015, after the earthquake had ended. As I walked past the collapsed building, which was still leaning and had not been demolished, rescue workers were searching for victims who had not yet left the building. The Hualien government had brought in many cranes... Read more
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Wu Ming-Hsing：The Twelfth Night Forever
28 Apr - 17 May 2020 YIRI ARTS When the Holy Spirit is poured out on us, the wilderness becomes a fertile field, and the fertile field appears like a forest. ——— Isaiah, Chapter 32, Verse 15 The time is the winter of the millennium, and the place is an old apartment building in the Marais district of... Read more -
Claire Borde ＆ Valerie Novello：Whisper of the Shores
13 Feb - 8 Mar 2020 YIRI ARTS Curator / Chang Kai-Chun The exhibition 'Whisper of the Shores ' is a dual reflection of the art of two French artists, Claire Borde and Valérie Novello. They explore the unknown in their respective life journeys through landscapes, as well as the projection of their own existence (Être) in these... Read more -
Tomoko Hasuwa：FES
2 Jan - 2 Feb 2020 YIRI ARTS Italian director Federico Fellini shot a film called 'Roma ' in 1972, which combined documentary and narrative elements. Typically, films that mix narrative and documentary aim to use the narrative to enhance the expression of the theme. However, in 'Roma,' Fellini reversed this formula by making the documentary segments the... Read more -
Lin Yi-Pei：Blow Over the Day
30 Nov - 22 Dec 2019 YIRI ARTS Author/Lin Yipei New Blank Page A test about time, a shape about life, a look about lovers... Chapter 1 In the days covered by humid and warm temperatures, the Danshui River releases a sticky smell, allowing people in the chaotic abode to enjoy the existence of loneliness beyond rational protection.... Read more
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Jiang Meng-Si：The Nest Boy
19 Sep - 6 Oct 2019 YIRI ARTS 'The Carved Heart' is the title of artist Jiang Meng-Si's master's thesis and will continue to be developed in the solo exhibition 'The Nest Boy. ' The exhibition primarily showcases research on the symbolic meaning of skulls, extending to the study of mask cultures from ancient times to the present.... Read more -
Chang Chun-Hao：Ubiquitous Net
15 Aug - 8 Sep 2019 YIRI ARTS Artist Chang Chun-Hao , who won the Kaohsiung Award in 2017, presents his solo exhibition this time with the theme of 'Ubiquitous Net '. Through his personal perspective on observing life, Chunhao uses the character 'Ubiquitous Net ' as a creative motif, focusing on the visual form rather than its... Read more -
Chuang Pei-Xin：David
6 - 30 Jun 2019 YIRI ARTS In the online cloud-based image gallery, digital images are like an endless torrent and intangible mass production, waiting for users to download and organize them into another subjective possibility. In this pristine and docile pool of image materials, content becomes signs within the system, pure signs. At this point, their... Read more -
Yuan Hsin-Yuan：Story or Tomorrow
21 Feb - 17 Mar 2019 YIRI ARTS 'There seems to be two worlds in this world. One is bright and stable, an orderly and tidy world with adults in charge. The other is a world of getting lost, extending from the boundaries of the bright road into the grass. The farther away from the road, the more... Read more
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Juan Yung-Han：Imitating Intimate Intimidation
19 Jan - 17 Feb 2019 YIRI ARTS Text/ Juan Yung-Ｈan 'My heart gradually takes shape through the experiences and trials of my body. If that shape doesn't signify imperfection, then what does it mean?' - Xi Song, 'Nezha in the Investiture of the Gods,' 1971. The social norms faced by individuals in a community act as a... Read more -
Hsu Rae-Ping：The Body Thing
17 Jan - 10 Feb 2019 YIRI ARTS Text/ Hsu Rae-Ping Through my work, I attempt to explore the integration and extension of the body and technology. I strive to create a space for discussion between the contrasting discourses of augmentation and subtraction, and propose that the body and otherness are inherently interconnected. My past experience as a... Read more -
Lai Wei-Yu：My Beloved Wouldn't Save Me!
7 - 30 Dec 2018 YIRI ARTS Lai Wei-Yu's solo exhibition, Headcanon Salon d'Automne 2016 , held two years ago at YIRI ARTS Taipei Space, showcased his insights, recognitions, and experiences in the art world, highlighting its amusing and absurd aspects. The exhibition offered a glimpse into Lai Wei-Yu's unique perspectives and reflections on art. In the... Read more -
Lai Wei-Yu：Intimate Yet Tender Moment
7 - 30 Dec 2018 YIRI ARTS Read more
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Chen Sheng-Wen：As Dead as a Dodo
17 Nov - 19 Dec 2018 YIRI ARTS Read more -
Yuichi Hirako：BLOOM
2 Nov - 2 Dec 2018 YIRI ARTS Read more -
Sun Pei-Mao：：LLOOVVEE
28 Sep - 28 Oct 2018 YIRI ARTS 'This is a confession without pressure.' He stood at the doorway, appearing calm and composed. However, the waiting process felt endless. He absentmindedly adjusted his standing position, aligning himself with the tangent of the tiles on the ground. He thought to himself that the person who answers the door might... Read more -
Mònica Subidé：The Last Child
4 Aug - 2 Sep 2018 YIRI ARTS Mònica Subidé, from Barcelona, Spain, held her first solo exhibition in Taiwan this year, showcasing a series of works that revolve around a common theme: childhood. For years, she has immersed herself in the world of childhood, exploring the meaning of childhood. Is it the dream of being surrounded by... Read more
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Wang Guan-Jhen：Strange Wind on the Road
21 Jul - 19 Aug 2018 YIRI ARTS Read more -
Chen Yun：Between Sleep and Wakefulness
21 Jul - 19 Aug 2018 YIRI ARTS Quietly Pacing Back and Forth Between Sleep, Wakefulness and the Mood of My Paintings Text/ Chen Yun Every morning when I wake up, I still remember scenes from my dreams, as if I can still smell the air that permeates in the dream, or hear some sounds and whispers. Familiar... Read more -
Yuichi Hirako：SEEDING
30 Jun - 29 Jul 2018 YIRI ARTS Yuichi Hirako 's works are all based on the theme of imaginary plant species and their lush mixed spaces. In his artwork, natural spaces, human cultural behavior, and artificial objects are intermingled, much like our real living spaces, where it's often difficult to distinguish between natural and artificial objects. He... Read more -
Xevi Solà Serra：The Euphoria
23 Jun - 22 Jul 2018 YIRI ARTS From Dual Pathology to The Euphoria If Xevi Solà Serra's exhibition 'Dual Pathology ' in Taichung two years ago was a slight tremor before the spirit entered extreme joy, nervousness and the burst of uncontrolled behavior, then 'The Euphoria ' is the extreme joy that has suddenly surged. The exaggerated... Read more
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Antique
Kumagawa Antiques, Morison Kobayashi, Norihisa Mizuta, Shih Yung-Chun 15 Jun - 15 Jul 2018 YIRI ARTS Read more -
Cruel Story of Youth
Lin Yi-Pei, Chiu Chun-Ting, Guim Tió Zarraluki, Shih Yung-Chun, Chen Yu-Erh, Yeh Chih-Hang, Lai Wei-Yu 10 Mar - 8 Apr 2018 YIRI ARTS In 1945, Japan's surrender marked the formal end of World War II. In 1951, the United States occupied Japan, and the two countries signed the first U.S.-Japan Security Treaty. The post-war society was filled with a sense of despair and hope coexisting. The Beat Generation, originating in the United States... Read more -
Guim Tió Zarraluki：On Paper
3 Feb - 4 Mar 2018 YIRI ARTS Read more -
Tomoko Hasuwa：Super Hero
13 Oct - 12 Nov 2017 YIRI ARTS Read more
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Guim Tió Zarraluki：Unreal Spaces
19 Aug - 17 Sep 2017 YIRI ARTS If you ever imagined mountains to be red or dreamt of green skies, you’ve already experienced unreal spaces. Guim Tió Zarraluki’s compositions are often dreamlike and expressive, ranging from back portraits to evocative and melancholic landscapes. Guim creates unnatural places with an air of the uncanny. This is probably connected... Read more -
Ning Sen：Re-Die
8 Jul - 6 Aug 2017 YIRI ARTS Text/ Ning Sen 'She may not live for more than two weeks.' The whole family knew about Grandma's terminal cancer, except for herself because she didn't understand the Mandarin spoken by the doctors. After leaving the hospital room with confusion, she saw a recovered patient presenting a gift to the... Read more -
Laba：FM 19.87 Radio
10 Jun - 9 Jul 2017 YIRI ARTS Text/ Laba During my childhood, I happened to acquire a fascinating radio that had both cassette and CD players. Since I couldn't afford cassettes, let alone CDs that cost 300 dollars per piece at the time, I was fortunate that the simple black radio could still operate with free radio... Read more -
Lin Tzu-Huan：A Survival Guide to Icebreaker
26 May - 25 Jun 2017 YIRI ARTS Text/ Lin Tzu-Huan Scientists speculate that dinosaurs became extinct due to climate change, which caused them to be unable to adapt. Only mammals capable of regulating body temperature survived. In the present human society, social activities exist. Social skills determine one's status in society, posing a survival crisis for humans.... Read more
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Chen Han-Sheng：The Last Farm Boy
19 May - 17 Jun 2017 YIRI ARTS Text/ Chen Han-Sheng Learn to say goodbye to family, it's never too late, but it always feels delayed; the feeling of being with the land is the same. It should be familiar, yet it's actually unfamiliar. Thinking that it's unfamiliar means not caring, but it's always on my mind, difficult... Read more -
Chiu Chen-Hong：The Dust of Time
22 Apr - 21 May 2017 YIRI ARTS On September 11, 2001, a day that shocked the world, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York, collapsed after being struck by airplanes. The towering symbols of human civilization, along with their tangible and intangible assets, vanished in a matter of hours, consumed by flames... Read more -
Asano Ayaka：Farewell Time
25 Feb - 26 Mar 2017 YIRI ARTS For me, whether it's the temperature or the warmth of the people, Taiwan is a country warmer than Japan. I will take this warmth with me back to Japan. And every time I leave, it's another farewell. – Asano Ayaka Early spring seems to imply that certain things have come... Read more -
Satyricon
Jao Chih-Wei, Ku Kuang-Yi, Kuan Hsun-Hung, Chen Guan-Hong, Chen Jiam-Wei, Chen Han-Sheng, Liu Hsing-Yu 18 Feb - 19 Mar 2017 YIRI ARTS Satyricon, in Roman mythology, refers to a lascivious and lustful man. The exhibition title, 'Love Mythology,' is derived from the movie 'Love Mythology, ' in which a love triangle leads to a complex and ambiguous tale of sexual adventures. The film depicts the first century AD, during which the Roman... Read more
