LISTENING TO THE OVERTONES OF FISSURES: 2023 GREEN ISLAND HUMAN RIGHTS ART FESTIVAL
Group Exhibition, curated by Tsai Ming-Jiun, Chen Wei-Lun and Tsai Ping-Ju, National Human Rights Museum White Terror Memorial Park, Green Island, Taiwan
2023.05.17 - 2023.09.17
傾聽裂隙的迴聲：2023 綠島人權藝術季
聯展，蔡明君、陳韋綸、蔡秉儒策展，國家人權博物館白色恐佈紀念園區，綠島，台灣
Green Island used to be a place of confinement, both politically and geographically speaking. It was not just the body that was confined but also the mind. During that period of being silenced and voiceless, the ideas and feelings in one’s mind could not be conveyed through words. In a way, color might be an outlet for escape. If speaking up is not a choice, why not expressing it in color? After all, to know a place is to perceive its colors.
I want to create a grid-style bookshelf in the shape of Green Island—it assumes the island’s contour, and at the same time, appears to be an island caught up in a net. Various books telling stories from Green Island can be found on the bookshelf. The books contain no pictures nor text, but convey the colors of the lives in black-and-white through the book titles and pages filled up by different colors.
綠島在政治地理上曾經是一個禁錮之地，它禁錮的不只是身體，也包含心靈。在這段被噤聲的無語時空裡，內心隙縫中的聲音無法公開用言語傳達。色彩也許是個逃逸的出口。不能出聲，就以色彩來傳遞。認識一個地方，其實就是去感受它的色彩。
我想創造一個有著綠島輪廓的矩格狀書櫃，它有著綠島的身體，卻也同時是個被網住的島嶼。裡面放置著各種述說綠島故事的書。這些書無圖無文，透過封面標題和滿版單色內頁，傳遞那些黑白人生歲月中的各種顏色。
The Colorful books for the lives in black-and-white
獻給那些黑白人生的彩色書
2023
Paper (books), wood (bookshelf)
Bookshelf: 169 x 169 x 40 cm
Books: 10 books, 29.7 x 21 x 4.5 cm each
