In the digital age, cultural globalization is extended through the desire logic of a handful of powerful nations, leading to the reordering of cultural production and everyday affairs worldwide. What mechanisms, then, underpin this invisible set of rules for selection and dissemination?
When we discuss a globally relevant image or picture, it seems easy to invoke a scene from the existing classification systems in our minds. Beyond these rules and classifications, what elements or scenes are filtered out or excluded by the system or mechanism? Perhaps it is indefinable spaces, ownerless territories not marked on any map, or drifting lands... How are these selections and arrangements of scenes or elements, which seem to belong to 'globalization,' established and presented to us?
Moreover, with the convenience of images readily available online, the brilliance and novelty of pictures gradually fade; the images and scenes of globalization, whether beautiful or disastrously incomplete, become homogenized and flattened in the fickle and impressionable human mind, hardly lingering long.
People pride themselves on mastering the pulse of technology, comprehensively capturing every view and piece of information. But in relying on technology, might we also be understanding the world through a filter, constructed by this invisible order?
｜Artist｜
HSIEH Yu-Ciao primarily works with moving image, mixed media, and spatial installations. In recent years, her practice has centered around the "green screen" as a conceptual metaphor to explore what is obscured, excluded, or made visible in the context of a globalized digital era. Her work reflects on how contemporary media, information systems, and technological infrastructures shape fragmented imagery and symbols, and how these elements reconstruct human perception and cognition. Her artistic inquiry also extends to the blurred boundaries between virtual and real, the expansion and externalization of sensory experience, and a continual attempt to transcend anthropocentric frameworks. Through this, she proposes dialectical questions about the complex and dynamic relationship between media technologies and life itself, seeking possibilies beyond conventional definitions.
Her works have been exhibited at institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei (MoCA Taipei), ALIEN Art Centre in Kaohsiung, WHATZ International Contemporary Art Fair, and the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, and have also been presented in Hong Kong, China, and other regions.
｜Information｜
‘Scenography of the Unmapped’
Year of Creation: 2024
Dimensions: Four-channel video / 00:06:33 / 00:09:53 / 00:03:38 / 00:04:58 / sound; color / dimensions vary depending on the venue
Medium: Projection, television, spatial installation, graphic output
｜Exhibition｜
2025 Perceptual Drift in Synthetic Mirage - Hsieh,Yu-Ciao Solo Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei (MoCA Taipei), Taipei, Taiwan
2025 Reconstructed Reality Beyond the Curtain - Hsieh,Yu-Ciao Solo Exhibition, S7 Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2024 2024 Nanying Awards, Tainan Cultural Center, Tainan, Taiwan
2023 2023 WHATZ International Contempory Art Fair, Sheraton Grand Taipei Hotel, Taipei, Taiwan
2022 The 2022 Contemporary Art Prize, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
2022 Symbiosis--Fourth Cross-Strait Art Schools Excellence Exhibition, Phoenix Creative Building, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
2021 Fresh Trend 2021--Art Graduates Joint Exhibition, City Hall High Block Exhibition Hall, Central, Hong Kong
｜Awards｜
2024 Selected Artist, MoCA Video 2025 Open Call, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei (MoCA Taipei), Taiwan
2024 Honorable Mention, 2024 Nanying Awards, Tainan Cultural Center, Taiwan
2024 Selected Artist, ∑Xpace Emerging Artists Exhibition, S7 Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2023 Emerging Star Award, 2023 WHATZ International Contemporary Art Fair, Sheraton Grand Taipei Hotel, Taiwan
2022 Finalist, The 2022 Contemporary Art Prize, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan
2022 Selected Artist, Symbiosis--Fourth Cross-Strait Art Schools Excellence Exhibition, Phoenix Creative Building, Hangzhou, China
2024 Video Sandbox II-VIII：Scenography of the Unmapped, photo at ALIEN Art Centre, courtesy of the artist. © ALIEN Art
2024 Video Sandbox II-VIII：Scenography of the Unmapped, photo at ALIEN Art Centre, courtesy of the artist. © ALIEN Art
2024 Video Sandbox II-VIII：Scenography of the Unmapped, photo at ALIEN Art Centre, courtesy of the artist. © ALIEN Art
2024 Video Sandbox II-VIII：Scenography of the Unmapped, photo at ALIEN Art Centre, courtesy of the artist. © ALIEN Art
2024 Video Sandbox II-VIII：Scenography of the Unmapped, photo at ALIEN Art Centre, courtesy of the artist. © ALIEN Art
2024 Video Sandbox II-VIII：Scenography of the Unmapped, photo at ALIEN Art Centre, courtesy of the artist. © ALIEN Art
2024 Video Sandbox II-VIII：Scenography of the Unmapped, photo at ALIEN Art Centre, courtesy of the artist. © ALIEN Art
2024 Video Sandbox II-VIII：Scenography of the Unmapped, photo at ALIEN Art Centre, courtesy of the artist. © ALIEN Art
2024 Video Sandbox II-VIII：Scenography of the Unmapped, photo at ALIEN Art Centre, courtesy of the artist. © ALIEN Art
2024 Video Sandbox II-VIII：Scenography of the Unmapped, photo at ALIEN Art Centre, courtesy of the artist. © ALIEN Art