In their retrospection of resistance movements, LIAO Xuan-Zhen and HUANG I-Chieh veer away from making narratives based on personal perspectives, and remove symbolic, slogan-ridden objects. The exhibition depends neither on convenient “documentariness,” nor underlines any typically heroic figures. Instead, in a precise manner, the artists allow space and its residual sounds to take center stage. By combining and arranging architectural blueprints, animation videos, and sounds created by objects, they evoke meaningfully subtle memories of the resistant body, and at the same time, deconstruct the previously enclosed, suffocating space that is the parliament in the depth of memory, rendering it clear and bright. This exhibition is an unprecedented thought-provoking proposal, which offers the political imagination, which has apparently faded, a form for rebooting and continuation. (Commentator/WANG Sheng-Hung)

In recent years, social movements have been launched one after another in various places. However, after a social movement ends, what has been changed, and what continues? Are the protests really over?

During the 2014 Sunflower Movement, the artists and the protestors co-created an architectural model using recycled materials that simulated the site of the protests. The model was viewed as an object of memorabilia and kept until the movement was over. Years later, the artists have based on this model to develop two works successively, entitled Paper Architecture and Save as, which serve as the artists’ creative response informed by their contemplation on the voice and position of creators as well as their aesthetic stance after the protests subsided.

LIAO Xuan-Zhen and HUANG I-Chieh both hold a BFA from the Taipei National University of the Arts. Their art practice crosses various media, including video, performance, installation, and documentary. Their works have been featured in the Taiwan International Documentary Festival, the Marseille International Film Festival, the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, the Chiayi International Art Doc Festival, and the South Taiwan Film Festival. They are a finalist in the 15^th Taishin Arts Award (2017) and the recipient of the Grand Prize in the Taoyuan Contemporary Art Award (2016).