Past Residents
Past Resident2011: FONCA - Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes
Eunice Adorno Martínez
Eunice Adorno Martinez’s photographic documentary work focuses on the dynamics of migration, music, identity, youth, and traditions. She seeks conceptual and discursive routes for a visual poetry on migration and explores concepts such as trajectory and reunion. Her current project focuses on Mexican migration in neighborhoods of New York City, considering identity, tradition and festivities of Mexican youth. Martinez is exploring ways in which young people meet and interact with other generations, social groups and cultural norms.
Eunice Adorno Martinez lives and works in Mexico City and her photography has appeared in a wide range of publications, including national magazines and photography journals. She is the recipient of the 2010 Jovenes Creadores Grant Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes for her series Fraum Blam, and has an upcoming publishing project with Fabrica editorial de España.
Eunice Adorno Martínez.
Eunice Adorno Martínez.
Eunice Adorno Martínez.
Eunice Adorno Martínez.
Eunice Adorno Martínez.
Past Resident2012: Bunka-cho - Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan
Yamashita + Kobayashi
Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi are a Berlin-based artist duo. The simple structure and humor in their methodology turns the seemingly impossible dream into reality and their work is a condensation of everyday life. In Candy (2005), for instance, the duo licked a huge ball of candy every day over six months until it had been reduced to normal size. In Infinity (2006), Yamashita + Kobayashi jog day after day over a course in the shape of the sign for infinity (∞), slowly inscribing itself on the grass. Their sincere attitude towards these seemingly purposeless duties contains a touch of humor and at the same time makes viewers reconsider about many rituals without meaning in their daily lives.
Mai Yamashita (born in 1976) and Naoto Kobayashi (born in 1974) are a Japanese artist couple who started working together in 2000. After graduating from Tokyo University of the Arts with a PhD, they moved to Germany, where they have been living and working since then. They participated in Künstlerhaus Bethanien and their work has been exhibited among others at Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland; Museo de Arte Contemporánea (MARCO), Vigo, Spain and the 2010 Aichi Triennale, Japan.
Yamashita + Kobayashi, Going Mainstream, 2010, Installation view at Aichi Triennale. Courtesy of the artist.
Yamashita + Kobayashi, Lion & Canvas, 2008, HD video, and canvas, 40.22 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Yamashita + Kobayashi, Infinity, 2006, HD video, 04.38 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Yamashita + Kobayashi, Candy, 2005, DVD candy, and glass bowl, 19.22 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Yamashita + Kobayashi, How To Make A Mountain Sculpture (Eiger, Mönch, Jungfrau), 2006, C-print, 28 × 19 in. (71.12 × 48.26 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2011: Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
Tang-Wei Hsu
Tang-Wei Hsu (born 1980 in Changhua, Taiwan) currently lives and works in Taipei. He obtained an MFA in Architecture at the Tainan National University of the Arts. Hsu’s paintings begin from an imagined fantasy space extending into installation, sculpture and public art.
Hsu’s solo exhibitions include Sphere of Planetesimals, National Central University Art Center, Taoyuan, Taiwan, 2011; Evolutionism, Gallery J. Chen, Taipei, Taiwan, 2008; Dredging up the drift, ITPARK Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan, 2006; Fantasy, the Art Center of Hsinchu University of Education, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 2005 and Follower, SLY Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan, 2004. Group
exhibitions include Art Fair Tokyo @ TOKIA, Tokyo, Japan, 2009; CIGE 2009, China World Trade Center Exhibition Hall, Beijing, China, 2009. Hsu was awarded the Asian Cultural Council Artist Abroad Subsidy, 2009 and the National Culture and Arts Foundation Creative Subsidy, 2009.
Tang-Wei Hsu, The Device Through The Space No.1, 2008, Acrylic on canvas, 63 × 44 in. (160.02 × 111.76 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Tang-Wei Hsu, Unknown World Of Distance, 2009, Acrylic on canvas, 44 × 63 × 13/8 in. (111.76 × 160.02 × 3.56 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Tang-Wei Hsu, The Device Through The Space, 2008, Installation, 157 × 551 in. (398.78 × 1399.54 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Tang-Wei Hsu, Monster Of My Imagine, 2010, Mixed media, 118 × 295 × 98 in. (299.72 × 749.3 × 248.92 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Tang-Wei Hsu, Strange Stars No.11, 2010, Ink on paper, 47 × 94 in. (119.38 × 238.76 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
