Display is a fundamental aspect of exhibitions. The manner in which works are presented not only influences how audiences engage with them but also plays a crucial role in defining the relationship between the artwork and its situated environment.
For artists who primarily work with sculpture, the presence of pedestals and walls is inherently dialectical. These elements serve both as tools for display and as integral components or extensions of the work. They facilitate the interaction between the work and the exhibition space, while simultaneously reinforcing the sculpture’s autonomy. Furthermore, the presence of pedestals and walls alongside the work signifies the transition of the piece from a private setting to a public exhibition space.
This exhibition, proposed by 'Seepage Edition,' a creative collective dedicated to exploring unconventional relationships in everyday life, features three artists specialising in installations. The project examines methods of exhibition, display tools, and the function of sculpture. By referencing functional furniture such as chairs, cabinets, tabletops, and screens, the exhibition explores display objects—pedestals and walls—seeking to identify intersections between everyday life and the historical discourse of sculpture.
In the exhibition, visitors will observe how the artists use pedestals and walls as a foundation to create various sculptures with similar forms or materials. These works are designed to evoke different contexts, atmospheres, functions, and experiences. As suggested by the exhibition’s title, ‘Display Rehearsal,’ the exhibition reflects the artists' intention to present the practice of display through the repetitive transformation of forms. This approach offers multiple perspectives on sculpture, blurring the distinctions between sculpture and tool, and between display and functionality.
In addition, the installations in the exhibition seek to transcend the boundaries between public and private spaces, extending beyond both physical and psychological dimensions. The works can be viewed as domestic furniture transformed through exhibition, entering the public domain, while also reflecting public display pieces that re-enter private and everyday experiences, creating a dynamic process.
In this context, Seepage Edition regards the process of viewing and interacting with the work as a form of ‘seepage.’ This term signifies the dissolution of clear boundaries between sculpture, furniture, and public and private spaces, which merge and permeate through gradual and subtle interactions. This process extends into daily life, offering new experiences of space, objects, and installations, and inviting multifaceted hybrid forms of existence.
展示,是所有展覽的核心工作之一。展示作品的方式,不僅會影響觀眾進入作品的途徑,也同時是作品與其他事物建立關係的關鍵。
對於以雕塑為主要媒材的藝術家來說,「展臺」(exhibition pedestal)和「展牆」(exhibition wall)的存在本身就充滿了辯證性:它們既是展示工作的工具,亦是作品的部分或延伸;它們一方面使作品與展場現地產生關係,另一方面也是強化雕塑獨立性的媒介。另外,當展臺或展牆與作品共同存在時,便象徵著作品從私人領域挪移至公共區域展示的狀態。
本展覽由三位以空間裝置為創作媒材的藝術家,以「Seepage Edition」為計畫名稱,提出對於展覽方法、展示工具及雕塑功能的探問。本次展覽從居室空間的實用家具如椅子、儲物櫃、桌板和屏風等形體與其使用方法為文本,串接「具有實用功能的」雕塑展示輔助物——「展臺」和「展牆」的研究,試圖在日常生活經驗與雕塑歷史的觀點中找尋交集。
展覽中,可以看見藝術家以展臺和展牆為創作基底,延伸出許多形態或媒材相似的雕塑,並且嘗試從中賦予作品不同的場域、氛圍、功能、甚至是使用者的差異。如同展覽名稱「展示排練」(Display Rehearsal),藝術家企圖在重複形態的變化中,呈現展示事物的練習過程。希望藉此提供感知雕塑作品的多元途徑,以模糊雕塑與工具、展示與功能性的邊界。
此外,展覽中的空間裝置也企圖模糊公共與私人空間的邊界。這種模糊化不僅是在物理空間上的探討,也包含在精神空間中的滲透過程。現場的作品可以看作是私人的日常家具經過展覽的轉換,進入公共展示空間;同時亦可以看作是將公共領域展示的作品,反饋至私人生活經驗中,形成反覆滲透的動態循環。
也正因如此,Seepage Edition 將觀看或使用作品的過程視為一種「滲流」,這種滲透象徵著雕塑、家具、公共與私人空間之間的邊界變得不再明確,而是透過彼此緩慢而漸進的相互交融、滲透,在日常生活中逐步延伸,並希望藉此轉換我們對空間、物件和裝置的經驗,形成一種多元的混合形態。
Artists
Seepage Edition
Seepage Edition is a creative collective dedicated to exploring unconventional relationships in everyday life. Through experimental events, contextual experiences, spatial installations, and sculptural furniture, they consistently challenge established definitions and boundaries.
Seepage Edition is adept at discovering new ways of understanding through creative practice, actively seeking methods of intervention. Their practices, seen as a form of ‘seepage,’ aims to transcend the boundaries between art and living spaces in a gradual yet meaningful way. Through this dynamic interplay of infiltration, they bring forth new hybrid forms of existence.
Seepage Edition is composed of three artists specialising in installation, sculpture, and photography: Jacky Jaan-Yuan Kuo, Sara Wu, and Sean Tseng. They are currently based in Norway and Taiwan.
Seepage Edition 是一個專注探索生活中非典型關聯的創作團隊,他們透過實驗性的活動、環境體驗、空間陳列及家具雕塑等創作途徑,持續地挑戰事物既有定義。
Seepage Edition 擅長從創造的行動中發掘重新理解事物的縫隙,並且積極尋找介入的方法。他們將工作的過程視為一種「滲漏」(seepage),期許用漸進而深刻的方式突破藝術場域與生活空間的邊界,在相互交融、彼此滲透的動態過程中,創作出新的事物混合形態。
團隊成員由三位以空間裝置、雕塑及攝影為主要媒材的藝術工作者:郭展源(Jacky Jaan-Yuan Kuo)、吳依宣(Sara Wu)、曾彥翔 (Sean Tseng)組成。目前居住於挪威及臺灣。