Courtesy of Taipei Fine Arts Museum.
Taipei Fine Arts Museum
Still Life
Date｜03.22-08.31.2025
Veune｜Taipei Fine Arts Museum
Chiu Cheng-Hung is currently participating in the group exhibition Still ‧ Life at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, presenting works from his Contrete Zoo and Daylighting series. The artist centers his practice on the concept of mobile still life, using installations and sculptures to highlight overlooked objects from the past. Through repositioning, staging, and exploring the interplay of light and shadow in cave-like spaces, he reinterprets traditional notions of still life in a contemporary context.
Contrete Zoo consists of a series of cement animal sculptures that were commonly seen parks and schools during the 1970s. The creators of these heavy sculptures remain unknown, and their forms are both rustic and comical. Rediscovered and minimally restored by Chiu, these ready-made objects are exhibited outdoors, standing silently in the museum's courtyard before floor-to-ceiling windows. Arranged as if in a still life composition, they evoke a sense of humorous and ambiguous tension.
Indoors, the exhibition also features the commissioned Daylighting series. In this body of work, Chiu sculpts shadows of plants, revealing a process of form and light evolution. Through the interplay of form and temporal arrangement, these works trace fragments of historical landscapes and time.
