Steph Haung's work "Talking Tins" (2025) is featured in group exhibition "Sounds of Babel" at the Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-Lab).
Dates: 7 June - 10 August 2025
Location: No. 177, Section 1, Jianguo South Road, Da'an District Taipei, Taiwan
From June 7 to August 10, the Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB) presents its annual exhibition, Sounds of Babel. Centered on the theme of language, the exhibition explores how language—as a medium of communication—can generate diverse forms of imagination and discourse. Bringing together 22 artists and collectives from nine countries across Taiwan, Asia, and Europe, the exhibition uses the symbols, sounds, and meanings embedded in language as a point of departure. Through a range of perspectives, the participating artists investigate the power relations inherent in language and the complex, entangled conditions of identity it reveals.
Following the experimentation with the aesthetic potential of language in Heteroglossia—Lecture Performance Gathering, C-LAB’s 2025 annual exhibition, as the second episode of the Contemporary Art Platform’s annual program in 2025, is designed to uncover the momentum and signifying function hidden behind language. Such momentum covers diverse aspects, and the works in this exhibition span from the construction of national identity, traumatic experiences, narrative reenactment, cultural interpretation, and political propaganda around the end of the Second World War to the ethnic differences and gender identity in contemporary society. The participating artists’ works show us the underlying cultural phenomena and the milieus of their emergence, as well as the imaginations running wild due to the desire for understanding and dialogue.
Image courtesy of the artist
Learn more --
https://clab.org.tw/en/project/sounds-of-babel-events/
