G.I@Fu
TSAI Shang-Fu Solo Exhibition
TSAI Shang-Fu Solo Exhibition
DATES|August 20, 2022 - September 17, 2022
OPENING|August 20 (Sat.) 14:30
DISCUSSION 1|August 20 (SAT.) 15:30
DISCUSSION 2|September 3 (SAt.) 14:30
discourse
The convenience of the Internet has led to the accelerated communication of various information and cultures. Naturally, the emergence of Internet memes has, too, opened up rearrangements of cultural contexts, transforming the contemporary reading experience into contextual retreats and leaping conceptions. This perceptual logic has become a distinctive gesture in the growth of a new culture.
TSAI Shang-Fu’s solo exhibition, GI @Fu, plays with the homophonous misunderstanding of language and its symbols, with its exhibition title adopting the English acronym of the old computer graphics format GIF. The signifier and signified point to a flow of multiple references, rearranging and reconstructing the order of meanings at present. TSAI’s work provides a way of reading outside the rational framework, which involves the visual choreography of dynamic simulation—point of view, scenario, and reimagination. In a cunning/slipping (a term of Chinese homophone) manner, the artist pulls out a layer of dimension, redefining the relationship between symbols and cognition.
The continual misunderstanding has replaced the original Graphics Interchange Format with Generalization Illusion Formation. TSAI Shang-Fu places the new meaning built by the misunderstanding back into the decoding process of the individual interpretation of meanings. The new arrangement of G (Generalization) I (Illusion) F (Formation) reflects the absurdities of everyday reality and dives into a world constructed by fictional representations, posing several questions exploring cultural connections and states of existence.
However, misunderstanding is not necessarily wrong. From time to time, I tend to misunderstand things, accidentally mispronounce exhibition titles, or strangely connect to inexplicable points. None of these matters, for along the path of recurring misunderstandings, there might just be a ‘gift’ waiting.
Text by LIN Yu-Chin
TSAI Shang-Fu’s solo exhibition, GI @Fu, plays with the homophonous misunderstanding of language and its symbols, with its exhibition title adopting the English acronym of the old computer graphics format GIF. The signifier and signified point to a flow of multiple references, rearranging and reconstructing the order of meanings at present. TSAI’s work provides a way of reading outside the rational framework, which involves the visual choreography of dynamic simulation—point of view, scenario, and reimagination. In a cunning/slipping (a term of Chinese homophone) manner, the artist pulls out a layer of dimension, redefining the relationship between symbols and cognition.
The continual misunderstanding has replaced the original Graphics Interchange Format with Generalization Illusion Formation. TSAI Shang-Fu places the new meaning built by the misunderstanding back into the decoding process of the individual interpretation of meanings. The new arrangement of G (Generalization) I (Illusion) F (Formation) reflects the absurdities of everyday reality and dives into a world constructed by fictional representations, posing several questions exploring cultural connections and states of existence.
However, misunderstanding is not necessarily wrong. From time to time, I tend to misunderstand things, accidentally mispronounce exhibition titles, or strangely connect to inexplicable points. None of these matters, for along the path of recurring misunderstandings, there might just be a ‘gift’ waiting.
Text by LIN Yu-Chin