From Banana Plantation to The Sugarcane Coast: An Artist’s journey in Central and South America Lo Yi-Chun completed a five-month research trip to South and Central America to better understand the history and development of cash crops in the region. She began in Brazil, the largest sugar producer in the world and visited sites of …
Previous Next THE DIVER, 2023 Materials: Bamboo, leather, bottles, tubes, air gun, air valves During the period of White Terror in Taiwan from 1947 to 1987. The inmates at the New Life Correction Center laboured and collected corals along the coast spanning from Niutou Hill to the Nanliao Coast. Only a few inmates had the …
Edit gallery CLIMBING UP TO ARCHAEOLOGY IN NEIWEI, 2022 Media: High density gypsum, woodwork, digital printDimensions: Wall 475 x 300cm; Floor 100 x 150 x 250cm Neiwei has been a site of human activity for a long time. Pottery, stone tools, animal bones, and shellfish remains have been excavated here. The continued agricultural and industrial …
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A research trip to Central and South America including Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, and Jamaica from August to December 2022. Lo Yi-Chun continued her research into the history and development of the sugarcane industry during a five-month trip to South and Central America. She began in Brazil, the largest sugar producer in the world …
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The Notebook of Takahashi (Alishan, 1861) Edit gallery From the Notebook of Takahashi (Alishan, 1861) Video Installation, mixed media This work is based on a mid-19th century narrative history written in a notebook by a young Japanese ethnographer named TAKAHASHI Hiroki. The notebook presents fragmented stories as well as reports of various activities and cultural …
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Black Edit gallery Gold Edit gallery White Edit gallery “Black · Gold · White“, 2022 “Black · Gold · White” is an exhibition of the artist Lo Yi-Chun’s creations and explorations over the past ten years using banana peels, tobacco, and bagasse as her materials of choice, that explore cash crops in the historical context …
A retrospective, and also a look forward. An idea of art, was to engage with the environment, the world that I inhabit, in a thoughtful and far-reaching way. To ride the colonial, economic, mercantile, political, and migratory waves of history to arrive at shapes and textures and colours that give a personal artistic expression to …
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For the past few months I worked on the writing, editing, and printing of my first catalog. I am very pleased to announce the official launch of the catalog at Madeleine Art Gallery in Taipei on July 31, 2022. Brief Introduction: “Black · Gold · White” is a catalog of the artist Lo Yi-Chun’s creations …
Edit gallery “Big Vases and the Exotic Landscape”, 2019Bamboo Splits, fiber paper, Marine litters, banana peelsPresented at Live Forever Foundation, Taichung, Taiwan Back to Works
Tainan Edit gallery “Sugarcane Fiber, Molasses, Ethanol-blended Aviation Gasoline. Just What Is It That Makes Today’s SUGARCANE FIELDS So Different, So Appealing?”, 2019Sugarcane fiber, bamboo splitsPresented at Tsung-Yeh Art and Culture Center, Tainan, Taiwan Sucrose was one the first exports that brought Taiwan into the fold of world trade and economy in the 17th century …
