"There is often a sense of unease, which comes from uncertainty about the state of myself. It is not ignorance however, it comes from looking forward to what kind of person I will be in the future?" - Wang Shao-Gang
From 2019 to 2021, Wang Shao-Gang began his collaboration with teenage theatre actors. He attempts to outline the indescribable life states of youths during their discussions. In the exhibition "Monologic Birds", the artist has assembled his thematic projects for nearly three years, to ask difficult questions to the world today: How can I become my ideal self before I become a perfect person? How can imagination and creation in the middle become a field of creation?
"Monologic Birds" attempts to reflect the translation process between the body and the image where the metaphors and references are just like the inner refraction of the current world and individual. Wang Shao-Gang turned the series of works into a new place of discourse, creating a constantly liquid and changing field in the exhibition. All impressions and images of the body are in an ambiguous but writing state, constructing an unstable yet poetic installation scene. At the same time, alluding to a chapter that belongs only to the present or the future.
Exhibition Introduction
"There is often a sense of unease, which comes from uncertainty about the state of myself. It is not ignorance however, it comes from looking forward to what kind of person I will be in the future?" - Wang Shao-Gang
From 2019 to 2021, Wang Shao-Gang began his collaboration with teenage theatre actors. He attempts to outline the indescribable life states of youths during their discussions. In the exhibition "Monologic Birds", the artist has assembled his thematic projects for nearly three years, to ask difficult questions to the world today: How can I become my ideal self before I become a perfect person? How can imagination and creation in the middle become a field of creation?
"Monologic Birds" attempts to reflect the translation process between the body and the image where the metaphors and references are just like the inner refraction of the current world and individual. Wang Shao-Gang turned the series of works into a new place of discourse, creating a constantly liquid and changing field in the exhibition. All impressions and images of the body are in an ambiguous but writing state, constructing an unstable yet poetic installation scene. At the same time, alluding to a chapter that belongs only to the present or the future.
About the Artist
Wang Shao-Gang
As an artist of video art, Wang Shao-Gang is good at exploring the external connection between self and others in the form of video. He constantly essays the practice of video forms, experimenting with the reorganisation of image creation in the form of films, videos, documentaries, etc. In order to eliminate category boundaries and re-explore the real meaning of the outside world.
He currently continues studying the content creation of local cultures and environmental history in Taiwan, the context of which is mostly based on people as a subject. He feels that there is an appealing fascination in those fragments of events, which are lost in life or history, constantly happening in time and space. Wang Shao-Gang excavates the scenery seen from the current reality, not just the appearance itself, but the building process behind it. He tries to transform the mediocre reality into an image/imaginary product after the point of view, to liberate the seemingly ordinary image in reality.
About the Artist
Wang Shao-Gang
As an artist of video art, Wang Shao-Gang is good at exploring the external connection between self and others in the form of video. He constantly essays the practice of video forms, experimenting with the reorganisation of image creation in the form of films, videos, documentaries, etc. In order to eliminate category boundaries and re-explore the real meaning of the outside world.
He currently continues studying the content creation of local cultures and environmental history in Taiwan, the context of which is mostly based on people as a subject. He feels that there is an appealing fascination in those fragments of events, which are lost in life or history, constantly happening in time and space. Wang Shao-Gang excavates the scenery seen from the current reality, not just the appearance itself, but the building process behind it. He tries to transform the mediocre reality into an image/imaginary product after the point of view, to liberate the seemingly ordinary image in reality.
