As an experimental platform for avant-garde aesthetics, TKG+ highlights paradigm shifts that blaze a trail in contemporary art today. The gray-toned booth for this year’s ART TAIPEI signifies the gallery’s constant exploration of the unknown through contemporary art.
Kao Chung-Li’s installation piece Slideshow Cinema VI - An Autumn Afternoon comprises slides of a Japanese family from the late World War II period that Kao stumbled across online. Narrated by the artist himself, the work articulates a complex, erratic tale that traces the coincidence and construction of history. Graced by his recent participation in La Biennale de Lyon, Taiwanese video art pioneer Yuan Goang-Ming presents Landscape of Energy－Stillness, a photographic piece that meditates on a foreboding reality lurking beneath the surface shaped by normality and habitude. Yao Jui-chung’s photography series Gods & Idols Surround the Border, Roaming Around the Ruins, previously on display at the 2014 Venice Biennale of Architecture, examines the alienation of space and enchanted memory, divulging absurd aesthetics of public urban desolation. In addition to digital photography, TKG+ also carries on a debate on painting. Charwei Tsai’s We Came Whirling Out of Nothingness ponders the relationship between man, nature, and cosmic order, through inscriptions of the Buddhist scripture Heart Sutra. Existing between dreamland and reality, the imagery of Chen Ching-Yuan’s paintings stirs both the painter and the viewer with a palpable energy that beckons the latter to dive into cracks of the former’s consciousness.