Double Square 双方藝廊

Su Hui-Yu was born in Taipei and received an M.F.A. degree from Taipei National University of the Arts in 2003. The complex phenomena arising from the entanglements among images, media, andquotidian life is particularly fascinating to the artist, which is why he employs videos to investigate how mass media influences people and how the latter in turn project their ideas and desires onto the on former. His works touch upon a riotous profusion of subjects such as the aestheticization of violence in mass media, the trance state of insomniacs, the fantasies in which the virtual and the real intersect, pure lust, and the indecent insinuation about the female body in today’s cinematic culture. Inspired by his subjective experiences of mass media, Su persistently delves not only into the world in which the influence of mass media grows rapidly but also into the dialectical loop in which he himself is situated. His investigation touches on a diversity of issues concerning consumer culture, advertisements, state apparatus, terrorism, the projection of body-image and desire between self and other, as well as the relations between illusions and realities.

Su's work has received both national and international recognition and has been exhibited at Power Station of Art in Shanghai (2013); National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art in Taichung(2012); Tina Keng Gallery in Taipei, MID_E International Contemporary Art Exhibition in San Sebastian(2010), AFA Beijing Contemporary Art center in Beijing(2009), FEM Foundation in Madrid (2007); IT Park in Taipei, Sparwasser HQ in Berlin, and the Cultural Centre of Taiwan in Paris (2006); and MOCA Taipei(2005) . And in 2013, Su was invited to present his work in Casino Luxembourg for the Luxembourg City Film Festival’s video program. In 2009, Su was awarded the Asian Cultural Council Fellowship Award(ACC) to research activities in contemporary art, participate in an international residency program in New York City.