TKG+ is pleased to announce that Good night, see you later.(2021) from So Yo Hen are selected to be part of this year’s film sector that curated by Li Zhenhua, an internationally acclaimed curator and producer for both international and Chinese contemporary culture. The sector presents a dynamic program of art films that cover a wide range of thematic, stylistic and technical approaches to film-making.
So Yo Hen was born in 1982 in Tainan, Taiwan. Centered on the people around him and his environment, So’s practice highlights the difference between himself and others, life and the media, a gap where subjectivity forms. He aims to achieve a sense of subjectivity that is effortless and unfettered, while pursuing passion and humor with incredible confidence. Hua-Shan-Qiang (2013) received the Taishin Arts Award in 2014.
In So Yo Hen’s video work Goodnight, see you later., a soft white duvet maneuvered by two marionettists that never seems to take shape embodies the artist’s sleepless state of mind in the dead of night. The duvet in the hands of the marionettists comes alive, metamorphosing into a creature that defies classification. It wriggles, squirms, slithers across the floor, never in an identifiable shape. This restless state evokes the persistently volatile circumstances during the pandemic that face us all.
So has exhibited internationally, including Good night, see you later. — So Yo Hen solo exhibition, TKG+, Taipei, Taiwan (2021); A Beast, a God, and a Line (touring exhibition, organized by Para Site, Hong Kong), Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland; The Secretariat (Pyinsa Rasa/TS1) and Myanm/art Gallery, Yangon, Myanmar; Kunsthall Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway; MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand (2018–2021); An Open Ending: Huang Hua-Cheng, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan (2020); The Secret South: From Cold War Perspective to Global South in Museum Collection, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan (2020); PLUS X, TKG+, Taipei, Taiwan (2019); Plaster Gong — Su Yu-Hsien Solo Exhibition, TKG+, Taipei, Taiwan (2017); The School of Nature and Principle, EFA Project Space, New York, U.S. (2015); Ghosts, Spies, and Grandmothers, The 8th Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea (2014), Hua-shan-qiang — Su Yu-Hsien Solo Exhibition, TKG+, Taipei, Taiwan (2013).