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 …
Previous Next “Golden Jasmine”, 2017dried tobacco leaves, bamboo, white netsPresented at Meinong Hakka Cultural Museum, Kaohsiung, Taiwan During my year of field research, I observed and recorded the steps followed by the tobacco farmers. Sow in August, grow seedlings in September, and add soil in October. At the end of the year, after fertilizing and …
Edit gallery “Tropical Collection”, 2016 Cypress, bamboo panels, digital prints on fabric, ribbon, banana peelsPresented at Navigation & Trajectory, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori, Japan Tropical collection is a series of wooden screens with Taiwan’s industrial landscape as its main theme. The installation, which consists of twelve vertically-held tatami screens, is the product of Lo Yi-Chun …
Edit gallery “Taste of Ocean”, 2018Dried banana peels, raw lacquerPresented at galerie nichido, Taipei, Taiwan With “Taste of Ocean”, Lo created in 2018, she shifts the focus to Taiwan’s migrant workers who under the flow of globalization have crossed the ocean to work in Taiwan. This new series of banana peel works has evolved from …
