・Calcium Silicate Panels, Light Steel Joist Ceiling, Lighting, 21st-Century Encyclopedia, Birch Wooden Balls and Blocks, Carving on Calcium Silicate Panels,Seeds of Taiwan Nato tree, Comphor tree, Toog tree, Smallleaf Elm, and Marabutan, Queen Crapemyrtle, Mountain Glory
・Variable dimensions
・2021
Far Side is an installation that refers to a distant place. The compartment, light streaming through gaps and the further lower ceiling grid construct the ceiling which is similar to the one holding the time capsule in my memory. This provokes our curiosities to peep through and imagine what’s over there. The piles of jointed calcium silicates panels leaning against walls and corners. The piles are cramming with objects, like a tablet carved with words replicated from the original catalogue in Westinghouse Time Capsules, seeds from trees around TAV, wooden balls and the 21th-Century encyclopedia. Therefore, the work turns into an archaeological site, and the traces of time and history are embodied in it like a deposit.
Far Side is developed from my strong curiosity toward the back sides of things, like the upper part of a ceiling or dates carved on calcium silicates panels, where, in other words, the past and the future are intertwined. Everything begins with myself, with my imagination about the Westinghouse Time Capsules in 1939. The time capsules chronicled life in the 20th century and portrayed this era with capitalized “WE.” From seeds gathering around the exhibition space to the location of the Westinghouse Time Capsules, from my 2012 to its 1939, I replace an era with a personal timeline, excavating imagination, expectation, depression, progression, action and communication.