The exhibition focuses specifically on female artists’ works in Taipei Fine Arts Museum’s collection, invoking the metaphor of “enclave” to represent a creator's inner world, indicating a safe haven for consciousness, a space which can be shielded autonomously, so that the creator can maintain inner peace and steadfastness in the face of external interventions or emotional fluctuations. The exhibition mirrors the rich inner worlds and diverse life experiences expressed in women's art, extending the common autobiographical narrative in literature to convey the context and life concerns of artists across different stages of their lives.
As a fusion of image, performance art, and embroidery, Lik-sú Tsiam-tsílâng is a series by Hou I-Ting. The inspiration comes from the embroidery course at the Women’s School of Home Economics before she enrolled at the Taipei National University of the Arts. The scene of a group of female students learning embroidery led Hou Yi-ting to revisit the historical development of women's schools in Taiwan. Hou appropriates historical photographs of girls’ schools in Taiwan under Japanese rule, This series represents the courses that female students attended then, such as embroidery, ikebana, zither, and horticulture. Covering partial composition with embroidery and repeatedly piercing and superimposing the structure, Hou not only weaves inimitable vocabulary of images to narrate the labor history of the female body, but also reveals that the ultimate purpose of female body discipline under the colonial education system was to refine the labor force and induce compliance.
