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Young Artists > Hsu Wei-Ying
To ravel alone in the Unknown.
— A journey to forget oneself.
Traveling is an experience of wandering around the world and being variable; it's also about time. For me, traveling leads us to the unknown. It's something much more than what we have seen and heard during that trip. But how could one decide to start a trip with any uncertainty. Even it's an unknown journey; it's a journey matters to us. Unknown could simply imply the unknown part about us and a journey could be a process of finding ourselves. Whether being a traveller, depends on if you are keen to the part of the journey.
I arranged a traveller in this artwork, as a reflection of myself, heading to an unknown continent. The motionless young lady with a flat facial expression is the body of this painting. She wears a bird nest as a headgear and a white gown, which appears to be a perfect image. But with a second thought, the bird-nest headgear is less comfortable, the gown is left in blank and transparent. The background is in wilderness and the metal color tone expects to create a world where seems no any living creatures and the time is meaningless. The gown could be a dress, sky, ocean, or air; there's no concrete definition. The gown interprets a necessary existence for both the character and background.
The woman wears nothing but the bird nest and the transparent gown, traveling in the world bare hands and feet. Neither the world should be named, nor the destination should be known. This is a journey in which people must head for the unknown and travel alone. The bird nest and gown perhaps are the only company she has.
The bird nest is a symbol of home, or a container. Even a lonely traveller, the nest (home) is always with her. And what kinds of unknown would she place in the nest? "Gown" is kind of symbolization and protection. The gown comes along with the traveller solely being a proof that she is from the human world. Or, would she ignore that? Would the traveller be the intruder to the world or originally is she the part of the world?
When should we spend some time to observe our inside world? How should we communicate with our spirit? How can we be aware that we aren't alone in this deemed-to-be lonely journey? Is the unknown journey heading ahead or toward home? "The heaven and the earth have the highest virtue, but they do not speak a single word. The four seasons occur in regular cycles, but they do not raise a single argument. All things in the world grow in a fixed pattern, but they do not give a single explanation." (Zhuangzi/ Outer Chapters/ Knowledge Travels North)
Modesty shall be our attitude toward the unknown journey; the journey itself is the life. Where will we be led by the life? The journey won't give a concrete answer. Perhaps the essence of traveling lies on "human".
2008- National Taiwan Normal University Department of Fine Arts, PHD study
2005-2007 Graduate School of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts
1998-2002 Department of Art Education, National Taichung Teacher's College
GROUP EXHIBITION
2014.1 [The Age of Beauty], LIPEN Art Galerie, Taipei, Taiwan
2013.5 [YOUNG ART TAIPEI 2013], Sheraton Taipei Hotel, Taipei, Taiwan
2013.3 2013 Art Tainan
2013.1 "I Love Printmaking" Contemporary Printmaking Exhibition．Gallery of Cultural Affairs Department, New Taipei City Goverment．New Taipei City
2013.1 The 21th National Printmaking Exhibition．Print Studio Exchange Exhibition．Gallery of Lungshan Temple．New Taipei City
2012.11 "Never-Ending Movement Art"．Woo-Yeon Gallery．Daejeon．Republic of Korea
2011 The 19th International Contemporary Multiple Art Fair．Estampa Arte Múltiple．Feria De Madrid (IFEMA) Madrid
2011 The Whisper of Love- joint art exhibition．ASTRIUM．Shin Kong Mitsuoshi．Taipei
2011.1~3 The 26th New Year Prints Exhibition of R.O.C.
2009.8 Charity Bazaar by Taiwan Artists for the Victims of Typhoon Morakot Exhibition．National Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall．Taipei
2009.5 2009 NTNU-SKKU Exchange Show．Seoul．Korea
2009.4 Duel Regard- The views from Taiwanese Women's Arts．National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts．Taichung
2009.3 Y.E.S., Taiwan--Young Emerging Stars, Taiwan．AKI Gallery．Taipei
2009.2 "The creations of the PhD Candidates" Department of Fine Arts, NTNU
2007.3 〔mian mao〕Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong．Ogilvy Gallery．Beijing
2007.3 Ink Painting Group Exhibition by Wang Yi- Ran, Hsu Wei- Ying, Luo Shi- Ching．AKI Gallery．Taipei
2006.12 〔sŹ〕Ink Painting Group Exhibition．TNUA．Taipei
2006.10 2006 The Fifth Artist Fair．Taipei
2006.5 "NTCU Modern Chinese Ink Painting Exhibition" National Tai Chung University
2005.12 2005 The Fourth Artist Fair．Taipei
SOLO EXHIBITION
2013.12 Solo Exhibition by Hsu Wei- Ying．LIPEN Art Galerie．Taipei
2007.6 Solo Exhibition by Hsu Wei- Ying．ZS Gallery．Hsinchu
2007.5 Solo Exhibition by Hsu Wei- Ying．TNUA．Taipei
2006.7 "Parts of Self", The Gallery of Taichung City Cultural Affairs Bureau
HONORS & AWARDS
2012 Taiwan Foundation for Multi-Cultures, discourse competition, the Selected Award.
2011.1~3 The 26th New Year Prints Exhibition of R.O.C., the Selected Award.
2008 2008 Kaohsiung Fine Arts Exhibition
2007 THE 12th DA DUN ARTS EXHIBITION OF TAICHUNG CITY
2007 2007 Kaohsiung Fine Arts Exhibition
2006 2006 Taipei Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Ink Painting
2006 2006 Kaohsiung Fine Arts Exhibition
2003 2003 Kaohsiung Fine Arts Exhibition
COLLECTION & GRANT
2008 National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Work:《Alizarin Gown》，2008，113×185㎝
2007 2007 Graduate student scholarship of TNUA
2007 A 2007 grant of Fine Arts from the National Culture and Arts Foundation
2006 National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Work:《Dress》，2006，65×134㎝
2012 "Post Printmaking" Studio, Korea Printmaking International Residency Program（Daejeon．Republic of Korea）
2012 "青春正無敵PK GO! " Seminar, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts
2008 TNUA Overseas Study Project of Printing Art（Singapore & UK）
2006 The Team of Curator. Taipei, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts,《Engravings collection of National Taiwan Arts Education Center》
2012 "Heterogeneous Writing of Brush and Ink Materials─ the works of Wang Tian de and Yang Shih-Chih" Taiwan Foundation for Multi-Cultures, discourse competition
2007 Master's Dissertation "Exterior and Interior－pleasing self in other's eyes" M.F.A. degree of TNUA.