Curatorial Essay "Haven’t seen Abraham" Text by Hu Yung-Fen

“Outstanding Taiwanese artists between 30 and 50 in the overall Taiwanese art ecology grew up in a nurturing, fertile environment, in which they received solid education, ample knowledge, sufficient global information and much freedom. Such an environment has shaped them in a way that they mostly concentrate on developing their original, distinctively art, which truthfully expresses their thoughts and stems from their own culture and life experiences.” - Hu Yung-Fen

Curatorial Essay "Battleground Girls" Text by Chen Fei-Hao

"In this solo exhibition themed on war, Chen Ching-Yao chooses the perspective of Battleground Girls as his entry point. The images he created are still in the style of anime. Through mixing historical and contemporary times as well as the approach of cosplay, he revisits and reconstructs Taiwanese people’s WWII experience, and employs this context to strike a dialogue with the virtual space of unlimited warfare, which is the global situation that this island must now deal with." - Chen Fei-Hao

Artist Statement "An (Un)specific Scenery" Text by Lin Chuan-Chu

“What I desire to paint is precisely this moment of here and now, which only belongs to me, unrepeatable, and produces a one and only experience. What I hope to deliver is the overflowing emotion described in the poetic lines, “the moon from that past moment remains today, yet to present it to you would be in vain”—it is a private, indescribable, and even unsharable moment.” - Lin Chuan-Chu

DSG project: Intertwined Narratives of Flowers and Love

In the spectrum of Taiwanese contemporary art field, there are also many artists who adore the elegance of flower. Double Square Gallery is specially presenting the editorial “Intertwined Narratives of Flowers and Love”, which will introduce the related artists and their artworks, see how they have turned flora as their inspiration.