Double Square 双方藝廊

Double Square Gallery is delighted to present the group exhibition – #Facts About me That May Surprise You, which will run from January 7 to February 25, 2023. The exhibition title originates from a popular trend on social media, which drew a lot of people, brands, and KOLs to share their anecdotes and secrets that the public did not know. Drawing from this idea, the exhibition brings together four artists, namely, Tsui Kuang-Yu, Chen Wan-Jen, Chen Ching-Yao, and Huang Hai-Hsin, and concentrates on the details and stories about their creative works, such as sketch drawings made before the artworks are published and smaller pieces that are never published before. Through glimpsing into the artists’ creative processes, the exhibition unravels the mysteries about their complicated journeys of developing ideas and experimenting before a work can really take form. As the exhibition deconstructs the audience’s impression of the artists, it also conveys the idea that even processes and tests are extremely valuable.

In #Facts About me That May Surprise You, Tsui Kuang-Yu exhibits his video work, Rubbing the City: Beautiful Dirty Bubble and other trial installations, design drawings, and documentary videos. He intervenes into the social environment with actions, and further explores the boundaries of urban environment and contemporary life through social experiments. Chen Wan-Jen exhibits his experimental videos from the early period, and remakes his well-known swimming and running series into installations of page flip animations. Using his signature technique of image matting, the artist guides the audience to repeatedly experience every moment of the video images, and injects a quotidian attention to and critique of the cold, mechanical repetition of actions.

Chen Ching-Yao imitates Chen Chin’s war painting, and combines the sceneries of war-time Taiwan and that of modern Taiwan to create anachronistic video works and gouache paintings. The interweaving scenes of the past and the present not only reflect Taiwan’s current political situations, but also beckons the fact that the society today, despite the different time and background depicted in Chen Chin’s works, is still facing a similar social milieu considering the pressure from the international situations. Huang Hai-Hsin exhibits never-published sketch drawings. Finding her inspiration from awkward and embarrassing moments in everyday life, the artist utilizes humorously parodic compositions and rough but candid lines to acutely delineate the scenes of survival faced by a wide range of common figures, exposing the absurd moments experienced by people in different interpersonal relations in this era, the political society, and family life.