Musquiqui Chihying's The Recasting (2025) is on view at the Hoam Museum of Art, as part of the group exhibition Art Spectrum 2026: ARoomWhereEveryRadiolsTunedtoDifferentStations co-curated by Jeon Hyo-kyung, Kwak Jun-young and Hugo Vitrani.
Art Spectrum 2026: ARoomWhereEveryRadiolsTunedtoDifferentStations
Exhibition period: 1 September – 27 December 2026
Venue: Hoam Museum of Art, Gyeonggi-do, 17021, Korea
Art Spectrum cultivates international collaboration while expanding its scope to artists across Asia; in 2026, it will be presented at the Hoam Museum of Art for the first time, co-curated in collaboration with Palais de Tokyo. Refusing a single unifying voice, this edition places distinct practices in close proximity, bringing together artists and collectives across visual art, film, performance, architecture, design, music, fashion, and publishing to consider how resonance can emerge without hardening into a fixed identity. It imagines an undivided room of overlapping frequencies, where signals cross, leak, and mutate, tracing unforeseen trajectories.
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The Recasting is a multimedia installation by Musquiqui Chihying featuring three broken vitrines with sound, fog, and light. Visitors wear wireless headphones or follow subtitles on a three-monitor screen. The work is about a Copper ding cauldron with inscription "Boai", a Japanese bronze object from the National Palace Museum in Taipei that remained in Taiwan after the end of Japanese colonial rule. Three framed drawings reinterpret the tripod's original motifs.
The installation reflects Chihying's interest in how museums rewrite history through objects, giving voice to forgotten artifacts. It invites reflection on Taiwan's layered history of longing and transformation, and embodies a quiet yearning-for belonging, memory, and identity.
Chihying explores how identities are formed in places once subjected to colonization, and how archives and museum collections shape what is remembered.
Text courtesy of Taipei Fine Arts Museum.
The Recasting (2025)
Synchronized audio, three fractured vitrines, LED lighting and fog machines, three framed drawings, 42 x 42 cm each, Dimensions variable.
Courtesy of the artist, Commissioned by Taipei Biennial 202
Learn more --
https://www.leeumhoam.org/hoam/exhibition/96