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Shu-Kai LIN

SHU-KAI LIN

The Unfinished Future Realm Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei | MoCA 17 August–13 October 2024 Taipei
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Amidst constantly shifting daily routines, people today go about life with diligence and also some trepidation, yet with a sense of hope for the future, relying on elements that make up our everyday lives, such as cities, beliefs, civilizations, communities, industries, and jobs... For the artist, making art is inseparable from life. The people and experiences he encounters impact his current creations and influence the development of future concepts.

Rather than a journey into the past, The Unfinished Future Realm provides a pathway to the present and the future, seeking to unveil the chaotic relationship between physical sensations and everyday life, with attempts made to interpret the three complex intertwined temporalities consisting of “the lingering past,” “the ongoing present,” and “the unpredictable future” and to imagine an urban civilization that is being constructed.

This exhibition combines the two developmental trajectories of “unfinished” and “future” to illustrate the ambiguous boundary between life and art-making through the artist’s past experiences with setting up exhibitions. The exhibition space, which appears to be in the process of being put together, highlights the artist’s creative process and the relationship between the artworks and the audience and offers a response on how we can find our place in this fast-changing world while reconsidering the value and the future of the city which we dwell in. Extending from his focus on the future of urban civilization, Shu-Kai Lin uses the remaining wooden molds from his family’s foundry business as creative elements and creates assemblages to imagine and offer glimpses into urban civilization. Through integrating archaeological objects and paintings, as well as his ongoing development of “balcony texts” in recent years, a way to decipher and explore the mysterious and symbolic interpretive messages that constitute a future archaeological site is provided, leading us into a future urban civilization constructed by the artist.

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About the Artist

Shu-Kai Lin / Born in 1983 in Tainan, now lives and works in Tainan Tainan, a city full of temples, winding alleys and religious symbols, was where Shu-Kai Lin grew up. Lin internalizes the experiences from life and depicts imaginary islands and cities in a way that is almost neurotic. Apart from producing images with religious symbolization, Li also uses hand-made molds leftover by his father’s factory as his material to construct cities of future, showing the unlimited metamorphosis of his imaginary islands and cities.

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About the Gallery
The Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei is the first art institution in Taiwan dedicated exclusively to contemporary art. The museum building was originally the Jan Cheng Elementary School, established during the Japanese colonial period. In 1945, the building became the Taipei Government City Hall. After the government moved to Hsinyi District in 1994, the policy of the reuse of historical buildings prompted the old city hall to be transformed in May 2001 into the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei and Jan Cheng Junior High School. MOCA Taipei is the first museum in Taiwan to be successfully built in a historical building, and it is the only one of its kind to share the same architecture with a school.

Since its inauguration, the museum has combined its historical architecture with contemporary art, entwining yesterday’s memories with today’s culture and introducing the most innovative and avant-garde visual aesthetics, media technologies, architectural design, and fashion from Taiwan and overseas. At the same time, MOCA Taipei continuously promotes artistic education and encourages the community to regard the aesthetics of everyday life. In the future, MOCA Taipei will persevere on its mission to promote and motivate multidisciplinary creativity both locally and internationally. With rich and diverse artistic performances, the museum will vigorously introduce creativity into Taipei, art into the community, and the ever evolving exhibition technology into the new life of the historical building.
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Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei MoCA contemporary art institution in Taipei Taiwan
Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei | MoCA
No.39 Chang-An West Road, Datong District, Taipei, Taiwan
+886 2-2552-3721
https://www.mocataipei.org.tw/en

Opening hours
Tuesday – Sunday
10am – 6pm

Closed on Monday
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