The idea of space has become abstract. 

The name Madeleine Gallery is directly associated with the patisserie that originally occupied the building. On the day of our first visit, we were told by the owner that the space was a pastry shop before being turned into a gallery. We gained this immediate yet abstract impression of the building’s former purpose on our initial encounter with the structure. While we were looking around, the abandoned cookware seemed to recall the original use of the space. The photographs hung on the wall from the exhibition at that time not only left us with memories that connected the artist and the place but also reminded us of the history of the place. Richly and paradoxically, multiple narratives unfolded in time and space.

'producing space: divergence, convergence, dessert shop' is a site-specific installation ​​that includes sculptures made from ingredients often used in baking, utensils and the raw materials of sculpture. Dispersed throughout the gallery, the installation complements the gallery’s architecture, exploring how ‘space’ is considered a producing site as well as a produced place.  

By juxtaposing narratives in space and time, we created a mixed space in the gallery. While the installation invokes discourses surrounding front and back, expansion and reduction, macro and micro, and the sociopolitical situation, we endeavour to imagine and describe how space exists from the minuscule to the cosmic, reflecting on historical stability and fragility, as well as the rise and fall of globalisation.

Through this exhibition, we contemplate perceptions of space and what space can be in the modern world. Space, to us, is atmosphere and perception, the crystallisation of time, the container where things interact, and even the embodiment of culture and politics.

空間的概念轉為抽象。

「瑪德蓮藝廊」這個名稱直白地將藝廊與法式甜點連結在一起。初訪藝廊，負責人告訴我們這個空間在成為藝廊之前曾經是甜點店，這便成為我們對這個空間最初卻最抽象的認識。身在現場，環顧四周，那些不再運作的廚房設備與器具似乎暗示著這個空間的曾經；當期展覽那高掛在牆的攝影作品引領我們進入創作者與某地空間的回憶，同時也提醒著我們現場空間的功能。多場時空敘事就這樣豐富又弔詭地向我們展開。

「生產空間：發散、聚合、甜點店」為一現地空間裝置。展場中放置許多由烘焙原料、器具及雕塑的原始材料（raw materials）製作而成的雕塑作品，試圖在藝廊空間、創作材料與的引領之下，突破現場的時空架構以描述「空間」的存在形態，進而探究「空間」是如何作為生產事物的場域與其又是如何被生產之動態關係。

透過帶有目的性地混淆時空敘事，我們在藝廊現場生產一「佔領」展覽場地之混合空間，試圖思考空間中擴展與萎縮、前與後、微觀與宏觀的邊界，及其所引申之現今社會現象。同時，我們嘗試在隱微的角落與極大的敘事結構的對話張力之中――如悠然歷史進程的不可動搖與脆弱、全球化的建立與崩塌等，想像並描述空間如何存在。

在這件作品中，我們期待能回應當今的世界與其所延展出對於空間的感知，及空間存在的可能性。空間或許是事物流動的容器、是一種氛圍與認知、是時間的結晶，更是文化與政治的體現。