The Lingering Bodies — Hsu Yi Ting Solo Exhibition

Venue：Red-Brick Office E Room, Tsung-Yeh Arts and Cultural Center
Date：2025/06/20-09/07
Time：Wed.-Sun. 09:00-17:00

This exhibit employs video and installations of ready-made objects to explore the impact of economic transformations on the rural landscape of contemporary Tainan.
Upon arriving at Shanhua Cattle Market, we encounter a marketplace on the verge of being pushed out of the urban system. Scattered with canvas, carts, and red plastic chairs–– amid which chicks wander––the market rumbles through rural clearings, rolling on through points of transition, echoing the friction between past and progress. Not removed yet, it lingers, stripped of expression. Practices such as manual saving, minimal renovation, and inefficient wandering linger on––dim and faltering––yet improbably survive under the dominant logic of capitalism. The landscape is rewritten in tandem with geopolitical strategies of self-preservation. Vendors, along with the droppings of chickens and hogs, find themselves on the fringes of science parks; their presence makes a kind of heterogeneity––something organic and quietly defiant. Beneath shelters made of corrugated iron and black netting, tea is brewed and melon is eaten. These lingering bodies are not displaced; they move in and out across these boundaries in the southern breeze. They crouch to pick garlics, and when as they raise their heads to peep at the price tag, they find their tin-canopy besieged by towering buildings. The air they exhale is a far cry from the ultra-pure, electronic grade carbon dioxide used in semiconductor manufacturing. The justice they deserve is displaced, interpreted as an anxiety about development. The tech industry erects a “silicon shield” that exempts it from the responsibility for the consequences of urban transformation, all in the name of national survival. Meanwhile, chicks poke their heads through gaps, searching for airways to cool down.

More Information：
https://tyart.tnc.gov.tw/index.php?inter=program&period=real&id=253
https://www.facebook.com/TsungYehArtsandCulturalCenter/posts/1144609961032952?locale=zh_TW