Past Residents

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Past Resident
2014: Ministry of Culture, Taiwan

Artist

Yinling Hsu

Yinling Hsu’s work centers on the behaviors and ethos demonstrated in human society. She creates characters and imagines their points of view on the subject. These images, whether about out-of-the-ordinary individuals or implausible space, convey the message that humans need to impersonate that which is outside themselves, in order to face the world.

Yinling Hsu (born 1987 in Pingtung, Taiwan) lives and works in Taipei. In 2013 she received an MFA in painting from the Taipei National University of the Arts. Recent solo exhibitions include Dr. Sleep and Gourmet Drama, Project Fulfill Art Space, Taipei; Ten Feet Above Stage Visual, Eslite Gallery; and National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. Group exhibitions include Lights of Women, at Gwangju Museum of Art.

Yinling Hsu, Dust plaza, 2012, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 35 7/8 x 45 7/8 in. Courtesy of the artist

Yinling Hsu, Two monsters, 2010, Acrylic on canvas, 35 7/8 x 45 7/8 in. Courtesy of the artist

Yinling Hsu, Everyone and everywhere, 2012, Oil on canvas, 51 1/4 x 76 1/2 in. Courtesy of the artist

Yinling Hsu, The time owner, 2014, Oil on canvas, 51 1/4 x 63 3/4 in. Courtesy of the artist

Yinling Hsu, The most precious cheese of the world, 2012, Oil on canvas, Diptych 45 3/4 x 35 3/4 x in. Courtesy of the artist

Residents from Taiwan

Huang I-Hsiang

A Practice of Silence begins with a vague visual impression, the administrative figure of the Absolute Space, a silent presence always sitting in the corner of the exhibition venue. Her work is a series of interpretations, empathy, and understanding. She is always there, yet hard to notice. She is the caretaker of the venue, and I want to depict such a character. My curiosity lies in her physical and psychological relationship with the venue; my curiosity wonders why she is here and whether she has ever thought about leaving. In short, everything related to this job, including emotions and circumstances. During the exhibition, I invited theater practitioner Tseng Jing-Wen, who is dedicated to promoting People's Theatre, along with former administrative staff from Absolute Space who worked here at different times, to conduct a body workshop. My basic idea is, the arrival of newcomers marks the departure of the old, and the interchange between new and old forms the life of a character. These participants, through shared memories, will engage in a self- dialogue belonging to this character during the workshop. Finally, on the last day of the exhibition, we held a screening event showcasing the workshop's video documentation at the venue.

Taiwan

Ministry of Culture, Taiwan

2024

Feng-Yi Chu

Taiwan

Ministry of Culture, Taiwan

2024

Hung-Yen Chang

Taiwan

Ministry of Culture, Taiwan

2023

Poland

Past Resident
2014: Hestia Artistic Journey Foundation

Artist

Xavery Wolski

Xavery Wolski’s work is characterized by the fetishizing of obscenity which functions as a means of testing the workings of the norm-making mechanism and cultural perception – or what Mary Douglas terms social filtering. For Douglas human focus on the dirt is automatically connected to the risk of opposing the established cultural and ethical norms. Wolski believes that all senses of perception are significant in the reception of culture as theory, since they constitute a part of the primal mechanism of human cultural perception and, therefore, are capable of transformation.

Xavery Wolski (born in 1988, Aix-en-Provence, France) lives and works in Krakow, Poland, studying at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts. He co-authored the installation Pasta on the roof of the former railway station, PKP Powiśle in Warsaw and the exhibition of Spirala Grupa NGC 5474. The Wild Blue Yonder at the Contemporary Art Gallery Bunkier Sztuki in Krakow. He participated in Agnieszka Klepacka’s group exhibition The Importance of Dust in the Botanical Garden Museum in Kraków. His and Hubert Gromny’s project Let’s trim our hair in accordance with lifestyle won the national competition at Grolsch ArtBoom Festival. In 2014, he was the winner of National Competition for Fine Arts Students – Hestia Artistic Journey.

Xavery Wolski, Lamella, 2014, Video, 7:13 min. Courtesy of the artist

Residents from Poland

Magdalena Ciemierkiewicz

Poland

International Visegrad Fund

2024

Nadia Markiewicz

The image presents an interior with white walls and a gray terrazzo floor. On the wall on the right there are two white, closed doors. on the left hand side is a window. Towards the middle of the image, and room, are four objects. Starting from the left, on the wall next to the set of doors, in the distance, is a small box covered in a dark red, metallic festive garland. Right about above it, and crossing the room in half, facing the camera, is a white rippled curtain. A arch-like shape has been cut out in the curtain, making it possible to pass through. The arch is not in the middle of the square-shaped curtain, but a bit to the left of it, asymmetrically. In front of the curtain, diagonally cutting through the space and resting with its red, boxy arrowhead on the floor is a giant, wooden cupid's arrow. It has a light colored wood shaft and the feathers are a white wooden cut-out. Above the arrow, a bit to the right and overlapping the window, is a stained glass in the shape and colors of a dart board - beige, black, red and green.

Poland

International Visegrad Fund

2023

Maess Anand

Poland, Germany

Polish Cultural Institute New York, The Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Krupa Gallery

2023

Czech Republic

Past Resident
2014: Foundation for a Civil Society

Artist

Dominik Lang

Dominik Lang (born 1980, Prague, Czech Republic) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in 2008. Lang represented the Czech Republic at the 13th Venice Biennale of Architecture with his large-scale installation Sleeping City and was awarded the Jindrich Chalupecký Award for Young Artists in 2013. He is currently co-chair of the Prague Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design sculpture studio. Recent exhibitions include Expanded Anxiety, Wiener Secession Building, 2013; Wasteland, in collaboration with Eva Kotatkova, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, 2013; Walking Through the Wall, Ceske Budejovice House of Art, 2013; Sleeping City, Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil, 2014. He also has two current solo exhibitions: Jindrich Chalupecky Award: Dominik Lang, Czech Center, New York and a large-scale installation at the Prague National Gallery at the Veletrzni Palace.