{"id":8703,"date":"2024-07-01T01:10:03","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T01:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artoday.net\/?p=8703"},"modified":"2024-07-01T01:10:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T01:10:03","slug":"retelling-the-history-of-sugar-trade-between-taiwan-and-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoday.net\/?p=8703","title":{"rendered":"Retelling the History of Sugar Trade between Taiwan and Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Taipei – There is another capital beneath the waves<\/em> The exhibition at the Fengjia Museum guides visitors through three exhibition halls. The exhibition is a collaboration between artists Xu Jiawei, Zhang Tingtong and Zheng Xianyu, and includes two films that reveal the entanglement between the Taiwanese and Japanese sugar industries, namely “Crystal Seedlings” and the work of the same name. The film installation reflects on the conflict between commercial, colonial and manipulative forces that drive the course of history, opening one scene and unveiling the next, just like the passage of time.<\/p>\n

The exhibition begins in a building from the Japanese colonial period. Its facade is painted on screens supported on the floor of the museum\u2019s first exhibition hall and on panels suspended from the ceiling. From the entrance, it looks majestic and solid. Arriving at the back of the room, however, it appears fragmented, like a stopped explosion. The works in the exhibition are scattered with such stages, where the floor beneath one history collapses into the next. <\/p>\n