羅智信|LUO, JR-SHIN
中文/EN
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material-based
The Mountain Algorithms @KMFA
Tomato Seeds Passing Through the Body and Germinating
Cat Litter Cat
Sink, Sunk, Suck
Old Color
in Budding, in Blooming, in Withering @Taiwan Academy
in Budding, in Blooming, in Withering(ACC)
Open Containers
Art Basel Hong Kong 2015
New Work Project
Comb Me a Waterfall
Blue or Gray
The Groom Stripped Bare by His Bachelors, Even
Soap Poem
Shoes on Gum
American Size
Female Bust I
Female Bust III
Polka Dot Bow Tie
my ex-lover is your very new sweet heart
The sea in the dream stroke me down
On the mattress
space-based
Look at Me Grooving
Forage - Habitat - Transit
Come into My Drain
Like a Urinal in a Nightclub @TFAM
Man Singing under No Man’s Land
The Stomach and the Port: Liverpool Biennial 2021
Subzoology: Taiwan Biennial 2020
Two Rooms, A Love Story
SNAILS (NOT INCLUDED)
Terrarium @Taichung World Flora Exposition
Like a Urinal in a Nightclub@TCAC
Coconut Escape
Water city-Times Museum
Slide, don’t Slip
The Great Acceleration:Taipei Biennial 2014
Sharon - an artist's imaginary assistant
Water City-TFAM
Water City(THAV)
Curtain
image-based
Queens International 2013
from one to all
Unseen Daily Life
photographs / sculptures
mixed drink 2012-2013
land shifting
Calm Summer
Daily Serving
Like a filter, matters passed through you and became a part of you, 2020
Woodwork, flooring, water, malt, hop, rice, yeast, sink, text mat, faucet, barrel, pump, pipe, fruit, iodine solution, fluorescent light, mirror, UV print, metal frame, shower curtain, custom-made sandbag, plastic chair, snail shell, glass container, filter paper, funnel, mortar, acrylic binder, canvas, epoxy resin, Viagra, dimensions variable


Like a filter, matters passed through you and became a part of you is presented as an installation, sculpture, and site-specific conceptual work. The work is an extension of the exploration of spatial perception and mental state from Like a Urinal in a Nightclub (MOCA Taipei, 2018) and Snails (not Included) (Michael Ku Gallery, Taipei, 2019). The flowing liquid in the toilet, sticky floor, and snails are metaphors, visualizing all transformations and changes, including specific chemical changes or the qualitative transformation of meaning and concept (that are relatively abstract). With the substance and where its transformation takes place as preface, the artist explores and asks: What transforms materials into works of art? How do objects and materials evolve and carry meaning? How do objects pass through us and become part of us? And by meeting and exchanging, could it be that the boundary between humans or objects has become blurry?

Just as hyphae build networks for entire forests, it may be that the bacteria in human stomachs are participating in the thinking process of the brain.
 
Subzoology: Taiwan Biennial 2020,National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMoFA), Taichung, Taiwan, 2020.10.17- 2021.02.28
Curated by Yao Jui-Chung