A Man After Midnight Su Hui-Yu Solo Exhibition
Exhibtion: 2015.12.26-2016.02.05
Location: Double Square Gallery / 1F
Reception: 2015.12.26 (SAT.) 3:00 pm
Artist Talk：2016.01.23 (SAT.) 3:00-4:30pm
Guided Tour：2016.01.30 (SAT.) 3:00-4:00pm
A Man after Midnight—Su Hui-Yu Solo Exhibition will be on view at Double Square Gallery from 26 December 2015 to 5 February 2016. It features five pieces of works newly created by the artist in 2015. Double Square Gallery invited Yu Wei to curate the exhibition which not only manifests the forbidden rebelliousness, lust and sexual impulses presented by the artist in these five tours de force but also addresses the question as to how these contents muddled through the grey area of cultural censorship with various patterns of aesthetic camouflage. The curatorial discourse indicates that “A Man after Midnight treads a delicate line between shady lust and lofty expectation of life, demonstrating a symbiotic relationship between eroticism and morality. In other words, this exhibition proceeds on the basis of alternatively interpreting forbidden products of popular culture, and thereby faithfully demonstrates the highly ambiguous duality of that age — cultivation vs. vulgarity, mainstream vs. underground, and dignity vs. frivolity. A Man after Midnight treats the erotic wonderland visualized by the cathode ray tube as a scenic route, along which the artist explores not only the sense of corporeality embedded in the taboo subjects in Taiwanese society but also the love and sex flowing hither and thither in the grey area of cultural censorship during the 1970s and the 1980s.” This statement clearly shows the attempt by the artist to set the viewers out on a memory-evoking and stereotype-breaking space-time odyssey. What is worth noticing is that the cast of the brilliant video artwork Super Taboo features the renowned Taiwanese actor Chin Shih-Chieh who plays a stereotypical role of a Taiwanese bourgeois worker in the 1980s. Chin goes straight into a mesmerizing monologue on the plots of an early pornographic material, building dramatic tension around this video.
