Very Fun Park 2011

YungYen Tsui adopts the classic fairytale of Little Red Riding Hood to discuss how women shape themselves as they mature. In different social settings, females are often conflicted between eagerness to and fear of displaying themselves. Underneath the fairytale-like hood, we see that shy Little Red Riding Hood is eager to grow up. She starts to walk the fine the line between self-exposure and the thrill of being watched.

“Timeless memories have been transformed from black and white images into vivid ones. The wonderful images of the bygone time manifest themselves in a picture in the form of colorful metal foils.”

In such a creative process, there is no awareness that draws the boundaries, only occasional attempts to create an excuse for any deviation.

Artist Liu Po-Chun has named this series after images of Vajrasattva, alluding to Wuxia, or stories of martial arts, along with other genres like mythology and science fiction movies. The strength, prowess, and invincibility of these contours resemble the Buddhist Vajrasattva and the state of a powerful completion.

Several types of rectangular solids and cubes made with paper were composed to make real spaces, which are not illusions. By keeping color to a minimum, the artist presents a series of works made by trial-and-error, considering the picture’s composition and structure from different angles

Artist Luo, Jr shin knows how to capture the subtle moments in everyday life. He does so by freezing a moment in time to enlarge the conflict and absurdity within. The artist adopts ordinary objects as source materials for his creation and reproduces “reality” using the wealth of imagery embedded in the objects.

With Liesbet Bussche’s ingenuity, the street signs, fences and pedestrian island have been transformed into elegant jewelry exhibition. Fixed objects quietly carrying out their duty in the corner of a city have all of a sudden become lithe and pleasant.

“Bits and Bits represents the trifles in our everyday lives. The color lines that popped out of picture books record the pleasure of every summer.”

This piece expresses the awareness of the existence of an object by viewing the empty space that the object once occupied.
By drawing flowers on an empty space, Ohmaki captures the story of an object as a blank silhouette or “shade,” visualizing the absence of that which should be there.