Finalists
The 16th Taishin Arts Award:
A Special Exhibition of the Finalists
Taishin Tower | 1F, No.118, Sec.4, Ren-ai Rd.,Taipei City Taiwan
The 16th Taishin Arts Award: A Special Exhibition of the Finalists specially invites the principal architect of ArchiBlur Lab as well as architecture scholar Eric CHEN to design the exhibition installation. The exhibition makes use of the spiral staircase in the lobby of the Taishin Tower, elevating the exhibition space up to seven meters high. To create this unique space, the designer uses six gradually changing linear structures and textile layers to fabricate the varying transparency and dynamic of the space. As the staircase rises, the installation offers a constantly changing perspective and creates intersecting viewing points. Adopting such an approach of viewing, the design not only serves as a metaphor for the mutual relationship between the sixteen finalists as they are viewing and being viewed, but also corresponds to the contours and outlines of the key visual design. Through physical movement, the exhibition makes audiences become aware of and re-examine their own coordinates in time and space. When we try to understand or revisit a certain moment in history, will the distance between us be changed due to the temporal and spatial divide? Or, will we perhaps realize something at the moment of looking into each other’s eyes instead?
Creative Team: Eric CHEN, WU Yu-Jung, CHEN Li-Hsien
