No.24 Theme Exhibition: "The Strange Proportions of Life"

<The Strange Proportions of Life>
The 8th-floor exhibition "Singularity of the Everyday" (奇點日常) features emerging artist Lu Chih-kai (魯志楷), who reinterprets familiar surroundings with an innovative perspective. His work is like reassembling fragments of ordinary life through collage to create fantasy miniatures. The 9th-floor exhibition "Inverted Life" (倒轉人生) features artist Chen Kai-ren (陳楷仁), who brings art works themed around the "Upside-down Man" (倒插人), using humor to look at the helplessness of life. We hope that through "The Strange Proportions of Life," we can awaken everyone's re-imagination of life. It is not only a visual feast but also an inspiration for thinking. Let us temporarily put aside established patterns and, through humor and innovation, re-experience the hidden strangeness and excitement in daily life.

8F 01 Singularity of the Everyday - Creator / Lu Chih-kai (魯志楷)
Emerging artist Lu Chih-kai reinterprets the ordinary life around us through his unique perspective.
He is good at using innovative elements to give humor and subtle interest to mundane daily things, breaking traditional viewing patterns.
These works are like fantasy miniatures, collaging and reassembling daily fragments so that familiar scenes are filled with novelty and the power to challenge common sense.
This exhibition features two works, "Swimming" (斿永) and "Landing" (登陸). Entering the exhibition hall is like being in a strange everyday world, attracting viewers to re-examine the multiple facets of life with a relaxed and humorous perspective.
"Swimming" (斿永) Single-channel video installation, color/sound, loop, 4m 23s
In Chinese, after removing the radical "water" (氵) from the word "swimming" (游泳), the pronunciation of the characters (斿永) remains unchanged. However, actually "swimming" in a pool without water allows for a deep perception of a strange reality beyond the actual and a collision under one's own psychological state.
"Swimming (Nobody, but my body)" (斿永) becomes an intersection of a semi-dysfunctional public space and personal intention under linear time. Imagine how to swim normally in a waterless pool, entering a space full of water marks, footprints, and broken dust, unfolding various body postures, giving a new life form to the semi-abandoned pool.
"Landing" (登陸) Single-channel video installation, color/sound, loop, 2m 30s
Using concepts of mimicry and evolutionary psychology, the artist enters the social world of birds in costume, recording his physical behavior in the space through single-channel aerial video. Placing himself in a seemingly reasonable and harmonious natural scene, he views this as an intervention and challenge to a different species. The visual focus on white dots spread across the greenery shifts between the boundaries of weirdness and beauty. On another level, the drone acts as a modern digital eye, echoing bird wings in its mechanical flight characteristics, looking down in a bird-like yet non-bird posture. Through camera positions moving from far to near and overlapping images, it creates an atmosphere of optical illusion, revealing the true situation of "I am in it" step by step.
Finally, even standing within inches of the bird flock, we still cannot understand each other, nor is it possible to eliminate the inherent alienation from each other. This discusses such a contradictory relationship and even constructs a strange mode of interaction and viewing experience.

9F 02 Inverted Life - Creator / Chen Kai-ren (陳楷仁)
When we are used to walking straight through life, should we try being stuck upside down once?
Emerging artist Chen Kai-ren's exhibition "Inverted Life" takes you beyond the norm, lighting up life with humor.
The "Upside-down Man" (倒插人) expresses an attitude of smiling at life. Now follow the artist's whimsical ideas and use an inverted perspective to smile at the joys, angers, sorrows, and happiness of life!
The "Epidermis" (表皮層) symbolizes the environment where humans live. Pieces of skinned meat are being slaughtered while people are stuck upside down or wandering within them. The seemingly humorous and funny scenes actually hide full humorous meanings behind them, reflecting the artist's feelings about the vast world.
The postures of the half-body figures living on the epidermis are samples from real life. The concept of "Upside-down Man" describes a Sisypheus-style absurdity: people strive to live on this land but cannot stop sinking, having to constantly fight and pull against forces invisible on the surface.
To make the tension of this struggling scene stronger, all characters are simply stuck upside down in the meat, letting the characters in the picture stand upside down. Nominally standing, they are actually stepping into a vague and ethereal space with their feet toward the sky.
Chen Kai-ren expresses his realization and observation of society with a self-deprecating and humorous tone, hoping to evoke through painting the kind of resonance in people's hearts that is a bit sour, a bit itchy, a bit helpless, but can only be met with a knowing smile.