二山鳥 Two Hill Birds

Artist duo Wu Yen-chen (吳衍震) and Chou Fang-yu (周芳聿) look back on their 10-year residency project around Taiwan. Amidst the rustic mountain landscapes, from an artist's perspective, they outline and record scenes, lands, sites, and features, presenting their 2013-2023 residency life and creations through this exhibition. This exhibition presents an art of island nature to the audience. Curator Tu Wei-wen (涂威文) compares the duo's actions to "Two Hill Birds," placing mountains in birds and looking down at birds from the mountains, enriching visual creation through parallel flight, dissolving the boundaries of individual inspiration and the boundary between artists and natural life. They comb through the appearance of nature to interpret people and their spiritual nature.\r\nThe two come from different artistic backgrounds: Wu Yen-chen holds professional degrees in ceramics and visual arts, long focusing on the relationship between animals and humans, and excels in painting, ceramic sculpture, and writing. Chou Fang-yu has a background in architecture and theater design, focusing on space, landscape, and memory, excelling in video, spatial installation, and painting. Spanning over ten years of diverse creative media, they have launched an in-depth exploration of Taiwan. They learn, understand, and record Taiwan's landscape and ecological environment through a nomadic lifestyle.\r\nThe starting point of their residency creation lies in guidance. The countryside inspired the ideal scenery for realist artists, and the residency experience brings out the ideal creative state of the duo Wu Yen-chen X Chou Fang-yu. Art connects the relationship between people and the environment, entering unfamiliar lands, dissolving boundaries, and reconfirming the existence and rebirth of the creative self in a state of movement.