This exhibition assembles around 130 works by women artists from 11 Asian countries, attempting a new examination of the contemporary meaning of post‒1960s art by Asian women from the perspective of “corporeality.” At the same time, Connecting Bodies focuses on works that have questioned modernity while revealing the experiences of cultural otherness that have been applied to the body in the geographical and political space of Asia, as a setting where ideologies of nation-states, patriarchy, capitalism, and nationalism have been reproduced.
The exhibition also turns its attention to long-existing aspects of women’s culture, which has sought to understand thought/sensation and art/life in integrated ways. In this way, it attempts to discover artistic possibilities for encouraging “connections” with those beyond us.
Joyce Ho's work, Vera X Diary, displayed in the exhibition, is a five-channel video installation. In the video, the actress incorporate her body into the spaces of furniture through various movements. With steady rhythm and measured movement, she also erases the dissimilarities in materiality, décor, and identity among the spaces.
