Musquiqui Chihying's solo exhibition There Are Lights That Never Go Out is on view at Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, curated by Yen Yi Lee.
There Are Lights That Never Go Out
Exhibition period: 7 July - 19 September, 2021
Venue: Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei
There Are Lights That Never Go Out is inspired by the Mandarin title of Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up, which engages in the deconstruction and a dialectic process based on objects, photographic technologies, image history and the generative network of digital image apart from discussing the power relation between a photog-rapher and his photographic subject. Objects and stories, when we see or learn about them, all carry full yet fragmented narratives. As the artist makes his observations, he also decides on his angle to carry out his re-search; like pulling an end of a thread strongly, the whole structure of a piece of fabric then becomes ruffled and shown.
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The Lighting (2021)
Three-Channel HD Video Installation
16mm Film Transfer to 2K Digital Video, 5.1 Sound
Experimental video The Lighting aims to revisit and clarify the problem of discrimination rooted in techno-logical development through an interdisciplinary exploration. The work comprises three narratives-a profes-sional Togolese photographer explores how to use instruments to compensate insufficient exposure for dark skin tones; software engineers developing facial recognition algorithms at Taiwan's MediaTek talk about how they have created a camera algorithm that is highly popular in Africa.
The Chat (2021)
Graphite on Paper
29.6 x 29.6 cm, 8 pieces
As the COVID-19 pandemic became increasingly serious in China, mainstream Chinese social plat-forms also began to block words related to the pandemic. Citizen Lab, a research organization under the University of Toronto in Canada, has studied this phenomenon and listed a staggering number of 517 groups of forbidden word combinations, including "virus," "lockdown" and so on. In this exhibition, eight vocabu-laries in two groups blocked or banned by algorithms are used in The Chat and horizontally handdrawn on paper in the manner of simulating digital prints by manual work.
Text and image courtesy of the artist and the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei.
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