The largest exhibition of work solely by women artists to be staged in Taiwan for 15 years is underway in the central county of Nantou, organizer National Taiwan Craft Research and Development Institute said Dec. 13.
Sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, “Femi-Flow: Creating Female Subjectivity in Art” features works by 24 artists from Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines, the U.K. and the U.S. Running through May 26 next year at the NTCRI’s Craft Exhibition Hall, the event features films, handicrafts, installations and sculptures in three themed areas: body politics and social issues; fairy tales and symbolism; and female subjectivity in folklore culture.
According to curator Ming Turner, “Femi-Flow” is a reference to the focused mental state of women artists when they are fully immersed in a creative activity. The show aims to express feelings of being energized, joy and self-affirmation experienced when they are in the flow, she added.
Weaver Labay Eyong from the Truku tribe is one of the highest profile artists from Taiwan featured in the exhibition. She is a two-time Grand Prize winner of the biennial Pulima Art Award, the country’s most prestigious indigenous arts prize organized by the Cabinet-level Council of Indigenous Peoples.
Other participants from Taiwan include sculptor Lin Li-hua, filmmaker Pong Yi-ping and installation artist Yang Wei-lin. Embroiderer Liv Aanrud from the U.S. and Yui Inoue from Japan, who knits and weaves, are among the overseas creators.
NTCRI Deputy Director Chen Tay-song said the exhibition invited artists from different age groups and backgrounds to explore female identity from a diversity of angles and offers visitors an opportunity to reflect on their relationship with society. (CPY-E)
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