The Unfinished Future Realm – Shu-Kai LIN Solo ExhibitionPost date：2024-08-19
Updates：2024-08-19
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- Event Time
- 2024-08-17~2024-10-13Tue. - Sun. 10:00 - 18:00
- Event Location
- NO.39 Chang-An West Road, Zhongshan Dist., Taipei City Taiwan, R.O.C
Amidst constantly shifting daily routines, people today go about life with diligence and also some trepidation, yet with a sense of hope for the future, relying on elements that make up our everyday lives, such as cities, beliefs, civilizations, communities, industries, and jobs... For the artist, making art is inseparable from life. The people and experiences he encounters impact his current creations and influence the development of future concepts.
Rather than a journey into the past, The Unfinished Future Realm provides a pathway to the present and the future, seeking to unveil the chaotic relationship between physical sensations and everyday life, with attempts made to interpret the three complex intertwined temporalities consisting of “the lingering past,” “the ongoing present,” and “the unpredictable future” and to imagine an urban civilization that is being constructed.
This exhibition combines the two developmental trajectories of “unfinished” and “future” to illustrate the ambiguous boundary between life and art-making through the artist’s past experiences with setting up exhibitions. The exhibition space, which appears to be in the process of being put together, highlights the artist’s creative process and the relationship between the artworks and the audience and offers a response on how we can find our place in this fast-changing world while reconsidering the value and the future of the city which we dwell in. Extending from his focus on the future of urban civilization, Shu-Kai Lin uses the remaining wooden molds from his family’s foundry business as creative elements and creates assemblages to imagine and offer glimpses into urban civilization. Through integrating archaeological objects and paintings, as well as his ongoing development of “balcony texts” in recent years, a way to decipher and explore the mysterious and symbolic interpretive messages that constitute a future archaeological site is provided, leading us into a future urban civilization constructed by the artist.
Rather than a journey into the past, The Unfinished Future Realm provides a pathway to the present and the future, seeking to unveil the chaotic relationship between physical sensations and everyday life, with attempts made to interpret the three complex intertwined temporalities consisting of “the lingering past,” “the ongoing present,” and “the unpredictable future” and to imagine an urban civilization that is being constructed.
This exhibition combines the two developmental trajectories of “unfinished” and “future” to illustrate the ambiguous boundary between life and art-making through the artist’s past experiences with setting up exhibitions. The exhibition space, which appears to be in the process of being put together, highlights the artist’s creative process and the relationship between the artworks and the audience and offers a response on how we can find our place in this fast-changing world while reconsidering the value and the future of the city which we dwell in. Extending from his focus on the future of urban civilization, Shu-Kai Lin uses the remaining wooden molds from his family’s foundry business as creative elements and creates assemblages to imagine and offer glimpses into urban civilization. Through integrating archaeological objects and paintings, as well as his ongoing development of “balcony texts” in recent years, a way to decipher and explore the mysterious and symbolic interpretive messages that constitute a future archaeological site is provided, leading us into a future urban civilization constructed by the artist.
