Yang Chih-han Solo Exhibition "Surrounding: An Undetermined Locus"

𓊆𓊇 Artist Introduction
Yang Chih-han (楊芝涵) graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at National Taipei University of Arts and later obtained a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from University of the Arts London. Her work has long focused on the relationship between place, boundaries, and the body, constructing fluid and anomalous spatial fields through painting to present multi-layered dynamic landscapes. She held a solo exhibition "UNFOLDING LANDSCAPE" at T293 Gallery in Italy in 2022, and her works have been exhibited in Rome, London, Shanghai, and Seoul. Her practice starts from everyday landscapes, continuously exploring the relationship between body, environment, and viewing through spatial reconstruction and perceptual transformation.
𓊆𓊇 Exhibition Introduction
"Surrounding | An Undetermined Locus" uses surrounding as a way to understand space and relationships.
"Locus" is not a fixed spatial coordinate but a state of continuous movement and adjustment between the body, environment, and others.
The work originates from the artist's experience of moving through the city, transforming walking, staying, and viewing into lines, color blocks, and structures within the picture plane, forming a visual language between abstraction and figuration. In her paintings, brushstrokes are not merely formal expressions but records of bodily displacement; the gathering and dispersion of colors and the direction of brushstrokes constitute relationships of pushing, pulling, and diffusion, rendering the picture plane as a dynamic space that can be perceived.
Urban sketches preserve immediate bodily reactions and extend into pictorial composition and spatial thinking. The metal tubular installations in the exhibition space are deconstructed from everyday structures; stripped of their original functions, they are transformed into existences between the familiar and the unfamiliar, defining and interfering with the viewer's walking path within the space.
In this context, painting can be understood as a "distribution of forces." The direction and density of brushstrokes and the gathering and dispersion of colors constitute multiple relationships, allowing space to generate amidst continuous pushing and balancing. Viewers, between walking and viewing, re-perceive their own relationship and position with the space.
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