Date｜2026.10.08-2027.01.10
Veune｜Gallery A-D, 1st Floor, MOMA Tainan
(Text /MOMA Tainan)
In 2025, Taiwan Spectrum launched a global conversation through “We TAIWAN” at the Kansai Expo in Osaka, Japan. In 2026, upon returning to Taiwan, the focus shifts back to the island itself, turning “Taiwan” into an artistic inquiry—an open-ended subject that is constantly explored, written, and reimagined.
Located at the intersection of land and sea, Taiwan’s changing geography, historical ebbs, and migration waves have layered diverse languages, religious practices, and personal experiences over time, forging a complex, hybrid, and resilient cultural texture. Since the late 19th century, modern education led people to observe their surroundings through art, leaving classrooms to rediscover towns, countryside, mountain forests, and coastlines through plein-air drawing, travel, and field study. Natural scenery, local life, and cultural landscapes became vital themes in early modern art, making artistic creation a way to record the times and connect with the land.
Just as the land’s nature and culture intertwine to create vibrant diversity, the development of Taiwanese art reflects a similarly inclusive character. Various forms, including fine arts, crafts, design, architecture, photography, literature, music, and everyday life, blend seamlessly, with different knowledge streams, techniques, and sensory experiences constantly flowing together.
Through refraction, “light” reveals various colors, while a “spectrum” allows differences to be placed side by side, compared, and extended.
Taiwan Spectrum spans the early modern to the contemporary eras, showing how artists navigate shifting societal landscapes by blending media and disciplines to draw continuously on and translate tradition and modernity, the local and the global. The exhibition features four main sections—“Island Form” (Land & Reading), “True Colors of Taiwan” (Color & Light), “Lightwoven Nature” (Material & Craft), and “Island Soundscape” (Sound & Faith)—grounded in perception and practice, revealing cross-generational reflections and dialogues with the island.
“What is Taiwan?” What we see here is not merely evolving artistic styles or time periods, but a deep exploration of how successive generations of artists have repeatedly sought to understand this island.
Artist Ava Hsueh Non-Zero Point, a work in the collection of the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, is presented in an immersive installation featuring seven high-resolution screens. Displaying both the artwork in its entirety and enlarged details, the installation invites visitors to explore the work from multiple perspectives and appreciate its intricate details and rich visual layers.
