Yuan Goang-Ming to Represent Taiwan at Venice Biennale 2024
The video artist also represented Taiwan at the Venice Biennale in 2003.
Portrait of Goang-Ming YUAN. Courtesy the artist and Taipei Fine Arts Museum. © TEDxTaipei.
Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM), announced this week that Taipei-based video artist Yuan Goang-Ming will show in the Biennale's Taiwan pavilion when the event returns for its 60th edition from 20 April to 24 November 2024.
Yuan has worked with video since 1984, and is a leading figure of Taiwanese new media art.
He is known for poetic narratives conveyed through videos and installations that question ideas of home, which speaks to the biennale's title, Stranieri Ovunque—Foreigners Everywhere.
In 2003, Yuan represented Taiwan in Venice with his influential work City Disqualified (2002). It consists of 300 photos of an intersection in Taipei's Ximen district at different times of day and night, which have been digitally altered to remove all humans.
In 2024, the Taiwan Pavilion will explore geo-political themes of 'map politics', 'war in the everyday,' and 'the everyday in war.'
Yuan, who will make new works for the exhibition, said he is 'trying to raise the question of why living in the world is a poem.'
The Taiwan Pavilion will be curated by Abby Chen. She said, 'My cooperation with Yuan Guang-Ming will involve issues such as personal anxieties and hopes.'
She added that 'in an era full of uncertainty and disagreement, we will work together to discuss time as the habitat of flux, and constancy as a form of resistance'. —[O]
