God's Eye · Observing Phantasm from the Heart — Hsu Ho-chieh (許和捷) Solo Art Exhibition

In 2005, with the birth of Google Maps, satellite imagery became a daily visual experience, and humanity gradually grew accustomed to understanding the world from a bird's-eye view.
Cities and landscapes have been transformed into flattened graphic structures; while the view seems more comprehensive, it simultaneously detaches physical experience and the sense of time.
This exhibition, titled "God's Eye - Observing Phantasm from the Heart," attempts to rethink the relationship between viewing position, memory generation, and map imagery.
French philosopher Henri Bergson pointed out that memory is not a preserved past but a reorganization in every present moment according to one's state of mind and the needs of action.
Starting from this point, map imagery no longer points to objective space but becomes a visual form of the mind's reconstruction of experience.
Events are also not frozen in an instant; as Maurice Merleau-Ponty said, the world is not an object to be viewed but a field experienced through the body, movement, and time.
However, the bird's-eye view also implies power structures.
Michel Foucault reminds us that viewing is never neutral.
This exhibition re-translates maps through painting, re-injecting sensibility and subjective experience into the de-corporealized perspective. Furthermore, images are no longer just records of an instant; as Gilles Deleuze proposed with "Time-Image," the frame carries the accumulation of time and the generation of thought.
Therefore, these map images are not representations of space, but psychological landscapes formed by the overlap of time, experience, and state of mind—a truly heart-centered way of viewing.