Taipei Dangdai 2023: Galleries

TKG+ is pleased to announce its participation in the 2023 edition of Taipei Dangdai, which takes place from May 12 to 14 at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center. In addition to the works of Taiwanese artists Hou I-Ting and Joyce Ho, we are also presenting the recent works of Mit Jai Inn (Thailand), Jane Lee (Singapore), and Sawangwongse Yawnghwe (Shan State of Burma).

The post-Covid era has seen Southeast Asia garner considerable international attention in terms of political and economic conditions, as well as its diverse post-colonial heritage. With the eclectic array of artists, TKG+ aims to foreground contemporary Southeast Asian art in this gathering of artists, galleries, and connoisseurs both from this region and beyond.

Thai artist Mit Jai Inn (b. 1960) conjures tropical euphoria with his geometric composition in kaleidoscopic color. Singaporean artist Jane Lee (b. 1963) creates evocative paintings in her dexterous layering of paint, suffused with delicateness and lucidity. Based in the Netherlands, Sawangwongse Yawnghwe (b. 1971) has cultivated a practice that pivots around personal history. Rendered in a consciously subdued palette, vignettes in Burma’s modern and contemporary history, as well as the history of the Yawnghwe family coalesce into a portrait of turmoil, divide, and exile. Taiwanese artist Hou I-Ting (b. 1979) presents her latest series of photography “If image has rhizomes,” which was inspired by the peat layer in the Scottish Highlands during her 2021 residency in Scotland. With plant fibers, she embroiders upon the aerial roots and moss on the surface of the peat layer in her photographs. Her keen observation of the environment and the mundane during the residency, interwoven with the image through exquisite embroidery, instantiates the craft of photography and artistic labor. In the video work of Taiwanese artist Joyce Ho (b. 1983), her subject often performs movements in a theatrical style. These meticulously dramatized physical acts accentuate the ritualistic quality and habitual state of the everyday. Quotidian routines morph into artistic renditions through the piercing lens of the artist.

On the eve of Taipei Dangdai, we are pleased to present Counting: Joyce Ho Solo Exhibition Opening x Gallery Night, which takes place on May 10 (Wed.) 5–9 p.m. With the act of counting as a recurring motif in the exhibition, varying rhythms and beats occur as a response to different individuals within the space. In these beats and rhythms resides an equilibrium born out of the same resonant frequency, easily at the mercy of dissonance. Counting, in a way, embodies the artist’s perpetual search for harmony. Please join us at the opening reception on May 10, and discover more about Joyce Ho and her work at TKG+ (B1, No. 15, Ln. 548, Ruiguang Rd., Neihu Dist.). Counting is on view through July 29.