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根基 FOUNDATIONS (2019)
現地公共雕塑創作 site-specific public sculpture, iron 10.3 x 9.8 x 3.8 m
總爺藝文中心Tsung-Yeh Arts and Cultural Center, 臺南市麻豆區南勢里總爺5號 Madou, Tainan, TAIWAN

I discovered the foundation of a house in the park of Tsung-Yeh Arts and Cultural Center and I thought about the invisible. The vanished building was a public bath, a part of the living quarters in the Meiji Sugar Manufacturing Company, where there are still some buildings left as historical monuments to the legacy of the rich history of Taiwan’s sugar industry.

I created a site-specific artwork as I welded the silhouette of the missing architecture. I used iron as a symbol of industrialization and I painted it red as the ‘red thread’ representing a kind of peace, protection, connection, and establishing a relationship. 

I’ve researched into the archived images of the buildings and interviewed local people about their collective memories. Therefore, instead of presenting a complete reconstruction work, I also leave some spaces for imagination.

The work focuses on the Immaterial Cultural Heritage, things that are intangible, such as the daily life of the factory workers, stories of local culture, and things that have already disappeared. By making the invisible visible, the artwork aims to arouse people’s awareness of the rich cultural landscape. By connecting the past and the present, it highlights the importance of immaterial values, which culture itself is based on.

我的現地創作是以接的方式勾勒出消失建築的輪廓,以鐵為材料象徵工業化的過去,而紅漆則是代表紅線,表達出和平、連結、並且建立情誼的概念。

我研究了關於這些建築的留存影像,並且訪談了當地居民對此的集體記憶,也因此,除了呈現重建的部分之外,也保留了對此建築的想像空間。

作品聚焦在非物質的文化遺,無形的如工廠工人的日常生活、關於當地文化的故事、以及那些已經消逝的事物等。透過將無形化為有形,企圖喚起人們對豐富文化地景的關注,藉由連結過去與現在,也強調出非物質之價的重要性,而這也是文化立足根基所在。

 







































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opening photos: 吳太
graphic design of the environmental protection promotion bag: Ákos Péter Komlovszky
archive photo from the book: 甜蜜時光 總爺糖廠故事 ISBN: 978-986-03-9103-9, 2013




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