Taipei Travel

I was crying in a very dark place,” Xiao Lu said. “Suddenly, a door opened, and a voice told me to come out. There was a very long staircase. At the end of the staircase was the Earth. I climbed down and eventually arrived at your house.”

This is something Wang Ding-Yeh’s son Xiao Lu said one night before going to bed when he was very young. From the moment Xiao Lu was born, Wang has come to see himself and the world through the eyes of his son. The 40-plus years he has lived and the enduring moments of his journey have been cast in a new lens upon the arrival of this new life. The past eight years became the bedrock on which his latest solo exhibition Home Haircut is based. Pivoting on the relationship between him and his son, this exhibition chronicles the fugitive moments and memories they share through video and painting.