♦  Shadow Is The Light - 2024 Taiwan International Light Festival  ♦

Exhibition date: 2024/03/16 (Sat.) – 2024/04/28 (Sun.)

Exhibition venue: Outdoor area of NTMoFA, U-108 SPACE

Exhibition time

  ♦ Outdoor Exhibition: 17:00～22:00 (Mon.- Sun.)

  ♦ Indoor Exhibition: U-108 SPACE, 09:00～17:00 (Tue.- Fri.), 09:00～18:00 (Sat. -Sun.)

Curator: Ryan Lin

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Exhibition Introduction ••

“We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.“

— John Berger, Ways of Seeing

History is constantly shaping the relationship between the present and the past, within which diverse knowledge and beliefs are developed from different experiences and choices. Now in the post-pandemic era, people’s daily life is undergoing various shifts, with our future ways of living gradually redefined. From small alterations in working, social, dietary, and recreational behaviors, to large-scale transformation and remodeling of industry, economy, technology, art, and culture, changes at all levels influence the way we see and perceive, with interpretations varying at different points in time. Analogous to the refraction of light, our mind serves as the medium, and through individual perception, each beam refracts different viewpoint and imagination.

In the “2024 Taiwan International Light Festival,” National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts aims to utilize the event’s rich heritage accumulated in the past four years and responds to the contemporary context. Under the topic of “Shadow Is The Light”, the curating focus centers on the changes and reflections of social consciousness, with the goal of evoking the viewers’ self-talk and exploration through visual experience. Between the light and the non-light where the buildups of the past merge with the perception of the present, possibilities for the future are expected to shine.

Artists ••

LI Cheng-Liang  (Taiwan)

HSIEH Yu-Cheng  (Taiwan)

No Sooncheon  (Korea)

Jun ONG  (Malaysia)

hellobastrworkshop (France, Taiwan)

CHUANG Chih-Wei  (Taiwan)

LEE Chen-An  (Taiwan)

LIU Yao-Chung  (Taiwan)

TIAN Zi-Ping  (Taiwan)