Oopject_un/intentional objects
When the exhibits of Oopject appeared in the basement of TKG+, an interesting phenomenon happened in this gigantic white box of elevated white walls and concrete floor. It was as if those miscellaneous objects of broom and litter were left behind unconsciously and placed in the exhibition space with other exhibits, such setting seemed curiously rational and pleasant: “We can even start aesthetic contemplation on bubble wraps.” This is exactly the maximum effect of how the artworks in this exhibition can arouse sensations. It is their “objectivity” that forms confusions between “art and junk”, and also because the boundary between the two appears so discreet, that allows the viewers to begin the most amounts of thinking and imagination from the objects.
This exhibition begins from a mysterious media experience. In Western art magazines you can often find such imageries: white walls, concrete floor (or so called Muji-style light wooden floor), and elevated space; there is a scrambled piece of map on the floor (that work is named Earth), with certain gallery’s name typed on it, then you will find it a very pleasant setting.
Besides a pleasant setting, however, this sort of artwork that does not prone to particular medium and technique, neither going towards refinement, probably exits in Taiwan, but to us, it is still categorized as a mysterious experience because how do these objects exist in galleries? Why do they attract collectors? Base on curiosity and jealousy, thus I curated such exhibition. It is as a scrambled paper ball, our exhibition contains objects such as burnt pot lid or motorcycle of illegal construction, and the scrambled map represents Earth, the pot lid flew over the sky of Tainan City to become an UFO; however, a paper ball is still a paper ball, just as a pot lid is still a pot lid, these are humors of subtlety. Furthermore, this exhibition focuses on “the process of creativity” rather than finalized or polished results. If I have to state an example, I would say that the focus is on “the wall panels with clay finish but without the paint”; it is difficult to say that it is a wall, but at most “wall panels that is going to become a wall”. Hence, to be precise, these artworks are prone towards “unfinished” but they are “better looking than finished”, it gives a slight sense of feeling “Oops!” or unintentional.
Reversion, humor, subtlety, with clay qualities to form an exhibition, there are not hi-tech skills or expensive materials, OOPJECT is more like an essay lingering between poem and joke, a humorous mix and match found between pronunciation and definition; they are objects that are light enough to reverse reality.
Project Designer
nofearsam921
Artists
Luo Jr-Shin, Wu Si-Chin, Fang Wei-Wen, Chiang Chung-Lun, Ming-kuei
Ho, Ni Xiang, Liu Yu, Chang Li-Ren
