Notes Archives - Lo Yi Chun

“芭娜娜 • バナナ • Saging: Banana in Taiwan, Japan and the Philippines” is presenting by “South Plus: Constructing Historical Pluralism Ⅲ─Ocean in Us: Southern Visions of Women Artists ” at Kaohsiung museum of fine arts

“Banana Taiwan Japan Philippines” a part of “South Plus: Constructing Historical Pluralism Ⅲ ─ Ocean in Us: Southern Visions of Women Artists” at Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts “Banana Taiwan Japan Philippines” is an installation composed of air-dried banana peels that resembles the glorious banana market in Taiwanese during 1950~1970. It is the first banana …

“芭娜娜 • バナナ • Saging: Banana in Taiwan, Japan and the Philippines” is presenting by “South Plus: Constructing Historical Pluralism Ⅲ─Ocean in Us: Southern Visions of Women Artists ” at Kaohsiung museum of fine arts Read More »

New Work “Bagasse Missiles” is included in “FĀng Wù – Aisan Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition” at Ju-Ming Musuem

“Bagasse Missiles” a part of “Fāng Wù — Asian Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition” at Tainan Art Museum Taiwan, situated in the subtropical region, once had sugarcane as its primary export commodity. Lo Yi-Chun ingeniously employs bagasse to create a series of interactive missiles: as viewers grip the handle and open and close their arms in a …

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400 years of “voc” at Tainan art museum

“Deer Rug” a part of “VOC, Sea Monsters, Artillery Fire, and Them: 400 Years of Fort Zeelandia” at Tainan Art Museum “Deer Rug” is an animal hide composed of air-dried banana peels that resembles the Taiwanese Sika deer. I created it at the same time as my “Tropical Collection” (2016) during my residency at the …

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New Work at Art Basel in Hong Kong 2024

A new work inspired by the recent research trip to the Caribbean “The Great Dark Fleet” is an artwork created using dried banana peels that symbolize capitalism, particularly the business practices of the American multinational fruit companies of the 20th century that operated between Central America, the Caribbean, and the United States. The title of …

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“Carbohydrate Fueling Cycle”, Hakka Cultural Centre

“Carbohydrate Fueling Cycle” at the Hakka Cultural Centre “Carbohydrate Fueling Cycle I, II, III” is a continuation of the “Molasses, Ethanol, Fitness Workshops, Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Life So Different, So Appealing?

“Living the Days” at Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art

Lo Yi-Chun’s work Taste of Ocean, 2018, which used sun-dried banana peels to create lines resembling ink drawings related to the lives of migrant workers in Taiwan, is included in the group show Living the Days at Yu-Hsiu Museum. Living the DaysDate | 2023.9.16 – 2024.2.18Venue | Yu-Hsiu Museum Collaborators | Mind Set Art Center, galerie nichido …

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Chiayi Art Museum: Here Is Where We Meet

Here Is Where We Are, Chiayi Art Museum Yi-Chun LO participates in the exhibition “Here Is Where We Meet” which is in collaboration with the Tianmei Art Foundation and Chiayi Art Museum. This exhibition references Here Is Where We Meet by English art critic and novelist, John Berger, and alludes to the metaphorical encounters throughout different stages …

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From Banana Plantation to Sugarcane Coast

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 …

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August to December 2022: Research in Central and South America

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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Another Look at Black．Gold．White (Mind Set Art Center)

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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