Chimera – Cross-Strait-Four-Region Artistic Exchange Project (2012)

For this project, five curators of contemporary art from Taiwan, Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau have each selected three to four active young artists from a region not their own to create separate exhibition units. Working from their own geographic and experiential specificities, the five curators made their selections with the concept of artistic exchange as a starting point to create a four-unit exhibition representing the four regions that comprise the project. The chimera in the title refers to Père David's Deer. Known as milu in Chinese, the beast is also known by its nickname sibuxiang-- literally “unlike any of the four.” This is an apt metaphor for this exhibition of works from the four regions across the China Strait, each with their own geopolitical differences as well as cultural and artistic contexts. The exhibition is held at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum through July 15, 2012 (http://www.tfam.museum/TFAM_Exhibition/exhibitionDetail.aspx?PMN=2&ExhibitionId=426&PMId=426).