Gihak ArtLab
Wu Shang-Yang
Born in 1992 in Taipei. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree of fine arts from Taipei National University of the Arts, and he was an exchange student in Merz Academy, Stuttgart, Germany during the semester. Wu currently lives in Taipei. The personal life experience influences his reflection on arts and politics. He uses multiple media, inclusive of projection, installation, site-specific, and performance art, to process the relationship between image, light, carrier, machine, body and space. He was selected into the 10th New York Travel Program, 2019 STUPIN x DAC Taipei Digital Art Center Residency Project, Sanzhi Triennial International Land Art Festival, and won the 3rd Lih Pao International Sculpture Biennial Gold Award and 2016 Outstanding Art Prize of Fine Arts given by Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts.
◇ Artist's Website: https://www.wushangyang.com/
◇ Residency Period: Nov 17, 2020─Dec 13, 2020
2020 Art Creative Project Exhibition
Opening Talk
This time, Wu’s project is divided into two parts. The work “Inbetweening No.9” is an installation of his sketch regarding nature and ecology around Zhixue. He incorporates the moiré pattern that can be seen throughout his artworks to let the materiality in the video collide with the materiality of the ready-made objects, reinterpreting the way of seeing and the landscape. The other work “Outsider” is a series of videos taken by Wu himself as an "outsider". The technical simplicity and directness are all because he imagines how his state of being an "outsider" stimulates the unfamiliarity and awkwardness between this place and himself.
Exhibition Period: Dec 6 -Dec 13, 2020
Opening Talk: Dec 6, 2020
Event Venue: Gihak ArtLab