Dates 2016.5.21 – 7.3
Reception 2016.5.21 (Sat.) 4:30 p.m.
Venue TKG+ Projects
Participating Artists
Chen Chia Jen、Hsu Chia Wei、Lo Shih Tung、Lin Wen Tsao、Chiu Chen Hung、Wu Chien Hsing、Chun Shih Pei 、Syu Jia Jhen、Kao hsuan
OCAC Group Exhibition 2016 is a creative collaboration among nine members of the Open Contemporary Art Center. The lack of a specific title for the exhibition offers an chance to reflect upon how an artist, as part of a co-run organization, constructs a relationship with other members through his or her own art practice. Cultural objects — the point of departure of this exhibition — refer not only to the physical existence of mundane objects, but to the identity and function of these objects in a social context. When Duchamp placed a daily object in an art context in 1917, which transformed “something ready-made” into a “readymade,” a work of art, he also paved the way for future artists to blur or break boundaries. Mass-produced, commonplace objects have since become raw material with which artists experiment and recreate. In their appropriation of ordinary objects, artists scrutinize how these objects are used in their original social domain. Instead of dismantling old paradigms, the concept of readymades is then refined, and forms the bedrock of another aesthetic.
