The Islands Series 島嶼舊式系列
Mixed Media Installation,
contains with Taiwanese elementary school desk, archival photographs, text, video, sound, charcoal board, pencil, LED tape, headphone, dirt, elementary school indoor shoes
2025- ongoing project
Mixed Media Installation,
contains with Taiwanese elementary school desk, archival photographs, text, video, sound, charcoal board, pencil, LED tape, headphone, dirt, elementary school indoor shoes
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"Taiwan is not a boat, she is a land rooting into this world."
- Nan-Jung Cheng, Taiwanese publisher and pro-democracy activist
- Nan-Jung Cheng, Taiwanese publisher and pro-democracy activist
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Taiwan, an island shaped by centuries of colonization, serves as the starting point for The Islands, a project that explores the tension between personal memory and institutional memory of histories.
The Islands Series (Untitled i–vi) reimagines Taiwanese elementary school desks as video sculptures. Using archival photographs and sound, each work reflects a different colonial period in Taiwan's history. Viewers must physically engage with the sculptures—kneeling, listening, reclining, and peering into the desks—to experience the work, echoing the embodied process of learning and absorbing history.
Untitled 5
Untitled 3 (detail)
Untitled 1
Untitled 2
Untitled 5 (detail)
Untitled 4 (detail)
Untitled 2
Untitled 5
Untitled 4
The Islands Series is exhibited in conjunction with the 16mm film The Islands. For more information about the film, please visit The Islands (Film).
