Curated by Art Book China Archive
Date: 15 Dec - 17 Dec
Time：15:00 - 20:30 (Fri.)｜13:00 - 20:00 (Sat. - Sun.)
Venue: Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB) | Art Space II 1F
Descriptions of the family unit are often conveyed through a stack of family photos, or a glossy photo album. In our childhood memories, photographs were always carefully sealed by Mom and Dad, or tucked away neatly under the glass of a desk for safekeeping. As we get older, the hometown becomes a faraway place, with geographic distance itself pulling people apart. Temporary homes become “places to settle”. The home is a site of comfort; it is a place that can be molded into what we conceive of as a home by hand or imagination – even when one finds themselves away from “home”.
Letters are a classic form of exchange, underpinned by what we implicitly recognize to be a heart-to-heart kind of nostalgia, constructing a narrative collusion between image and text. “Home” is every individual’s primary source, as well as a document of intimacy, and the starting point of all stories. It could be the reassembly of fragments of memory, or the therapy to our traumas. In the hands of artists, a book transforms into a playground of “archive and fiction”, with authors and readers becoming detectives or thieves.
In this temporary exhibition, “home” and ”that which is related to the home” is the original creative impetus for our artists; it is family history, the diasporic experience – turning the concept of the home into a vast cultural field – with artists’ books serving as the best vessel for these materials.
wǒ ài wǒ jiā – “I love my home” – is a family sitcom, as well as a well-known real estate chain, its name having already become a collective memory for several generations over. As its literal meaning suggests, it is an expression of love; a humorous description of the home.
Welcome home!
Text by Zhao Mengsha
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Event
“wo ai wo jia” Online Curator‘s Guide
Date：16 Dec（Sat.） 19:00 - 19:30
Venue：Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB) | Art Space II 1F