Musquiqui Chihying's The Recasting (2025) is on view at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, as part of the Taipei Biennial 2025 group exhibition Whispers on the Horizon co-curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath.
Whispers on the Horizon
Exhibition period: 1 November 2025 – 29 March 2026
Venue: Taipei Fine Arts Museum
In Whispers on the Horizon, contemporary works will engage in a dialogue with early 20th-century paintings from Taipei Fine Arts Museum’s collection. Moreover, the biennial will draw inspiration from artifacts from the National Palace Museum. This adds an extra historical dimension and cultural depth to the meaning of yearning, reminding us that yearning is not merely an emotional experience, but a reverberation across time, preserved in paint and porcelain, in delicate brushstrokes, and in objects that transcend borders and generations. They act as visual and conceptual bridges, reminding us that longing is not bound to the present; it echoes through centuries, across cultural shifts and political ruptures.
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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.
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 the 14th Taipei Biennial
Text courtesy of Taipei Fine Arts Museum.
Learn more --
https://www.taipeibiennial.org/2025/content/Musquiqui_Chihying
