New Taipei City Art Museum Exhibition Audio Guide

Minjian / Photography: Documentary Vision and Its Realist Inflection 2026.07.18-11.15 ｜Curator｜CHANG Shih-lun ｜Artists｜MATSUYAMA Kenzo, CHANG Tsai, HUANG Tse-hsiu, HUANG Yung-sung, YAO Meng-chia, CHANG Chao-tang, LIANG Cheng-chu, LIN Bo-liang ｜More Information｜ https://ntcart.museum/exhibition_content.aspx?id=H2606003

Minjian / Photography: Documentary Vision and Its Realist Inflection 2026.07.18-11.15 ｜Curator｜CHANG Shih-lun ｜Artists｜MATSUYAMA Kenzo, CHANG Tsai, HUANG Tse-hsiu, HUANG Yung-sung, YAO Meng-chia, CHANG Chao-tang, LIANG Cheng-chu, LIN Bo-liang ｜More Information｜ https://ntcart.museum/exhibition_content.aspx?id=H2606003

Minjian / Photography: Documentary Vision and Its Realist Inflection 2026.07.18-11.15 ｜Curator｜CHANG Shih-lun ｜Artists｜MATSUYAMA Kenzo, CHANG Tsai, HUANG Tse-hsiu, HUANG Yung-sung, YAO Meng-chia, CHANG Chao-tang, LIANG Cheng-chu, LIN Bo-liang ｜More Information｜ https://ntcart.museum/exhibition_content.aspx?id=H2606003

Minjian / Photography: Documentary Vision and Its Realist Inflection 2026.07.18-11.15 ｜Curator｜CHANG Shih-lun ｜Artists｜MATSUYAMA Kenzo, CHANG Tsai, HUANG Tse-hsiu, HUANG Yung-sung, YAO Meng-chia, CHANG Chao-tang, LIANG Cheng-chu, LIN Bo-liang ｜More Information｜ https://ntcart.museum/exhibition_content.aspx?id=H2606003

Minjian / Photography: Documentary Vision and Its Realist Inflection 2026.07.18-11.15 ｜Curator｜CHANG Shih-lun ｜Artists｜MATSUYAMA Kenzo, CHANG Tsai, HUANG Tse-hsiu, HUANG Yung-sung, YAO Meng-chia, CHANG Chao-tang, LIANG Cheng-chu, LIN Bo-liang ｜More Information｜ https://ntcart.museum/exhibition_content.aspx?id=H2606003

Minjian / Photography: Documentary Vision and Its Realist Inflection 2026.07.18-11.15 ｜Curator｜CHANG Shih-lun ｜Artists｜MATSUYAMA Kenzo, CHANG Tsai, HUANG Tse-hsiu, HUANG Yung-sung, YAO Meng-chia, CHANG Chao-tang, LIANG Cheng-chu, LIN Bo-liang ｜More Information｜ https://ntcart.museum/exhibition_content.aspx?id=H2606003

Minjian / Photography: Documentary Vision and Its Realist Inflection 2026.07.18-11.15 ｜Curator｜CHANG Shih-lun ｜Artists｜MATSUYAMA Kenzo, CHANG Tsai, HUANG Tse-hsiu, HUANG Yung-sung, YAO Meng-chia, CHANG Chao-tang, LIANG Cheng-chu, LIN Bo-liang ｜More Information｜ https://ntcart.museum/exhibition_content.aspx?id=H2606003

Minjian / Photography: Documentary Vision and Its Realist Inflection 2026.07.18-11.15 ｜Curator｜CHANG Shih-lun ｜Artists｜MATSUYAMA Kenzo, CHANG Tsai, HUANG Tse-hsiu, HUANG Yung-sung, YAO Meng-chia, CHANG Chao-tang, LIANG Cheng-chu, LIN Bo-liang ｜More Information｜ https://ntcart.museum/exhibition_content.aspx?id=H2606003

Minjian / Photography: Documentary Vision and Its Realist Inflection 2026.07.18-11.15 ｜Curator｜CHANG Shih-lun ｜Artists｜MATSUYAMA Kenzo, CHANG Tsai, HUANG Tse-hsiu, HUANG Yung-sung, YAO Meng-chia, CHANG Chao-tang, LIANG Cheng-chu, LIN Bo-liang ｜More Information｜ https://ntcart.museum/exhibition_content.aspx?id=H2606003

Script of this episode// Since its preparatory stage, the **New Taipei City Art Museum **has centered its research on constructing the art history of New Taipei, shaping a collection system rooted in local perspectives. Historically, New Taipei City has carried the trajectories of diverse ethnic groups—their migration, residency, and coexistence—layering into a rich tapestry of folk culture and cu...

Script of this episode// Folk into Image Folk culture is the sum of collective life—the stick of incense for peace in a family hall, the lights and dramas on an outdoor stage, and the legends shared across generations. It shapes the contours of culture and serves as a mark of identity. When folk customs become a source of inspiration, fragments of daily life are transformed into rich symbols that...

Script of this episode// Ritual Scenes As a site for practicing folk culture, rituals often showcase the most vibrant scenes of daily life. In the section "Ritual Scenes," artists observe these folk gatherings through various media, capturing one lively, spirited moment after another. We see Hu Chia using watercolors to capture wide-angle scenes of boisterous temple fairs—the surging crowds in the...

Script of this episode// Observing the Human Condition The "Folk" is more than just a collection of daily scenes and experiences; it is a vital arena where people interact and establish social structures. Thus, artists observe society through a unique lens, employing techniques such as appropriation, transformation, and the reconfiguration of elements to raise inquiries about specific social pheno...

Script of this episode// Fly with Pacha, into the Aerocene portrays the long-standing collaboration between the Aerocene Foundation and Indigenous Communities in northern Argentina. Their collective resistance against industrial lithium mining defends ancestral lands and the vital water that supports them. Extending this gesture, the Fairclouds project invited local and Argentine communities to dr...

Script of this episode// In the room of Thermodynamic Imaginary, an ecology of air, glass, and light reveals the invisible movements of energy that sustain life across scales and spectra. Aerocene sculptures float as prototypes for fossil-free flight; interconnected geodesic sculptures from the artist's long-standing Cloud Cities series mirror vapor and equilibrium, proposing alternative urbanisms...

Script of this episode// Algor-(h)i(y)thms echoes the more-than-human architectures introduced earlier, transforming the spider/web into an inhabitable, tensile environment where bodies encounter new forms of connectivity and balance. Participants are invited to experience a different physics of coexistence, where movement and vibration become ways of listening. Each converging node within Algor-(...

Script of this episode// Arachnophilia refers to an affinity or fascination with spiders, in contrast to the more familiar arachnophobia. Across cultures, spiders have long been seen as beings of wisdom and mystery, and practices of "spider divination" continue today, asking spiders about past, present, and future. For over two decades, Tomás Saraceno and Arachnophilia, the interdisciplinary proje...

Script of this episode// What do you see in the clouds? What latencies are contained within their waters? These walls feature the intergenerational artwork Fairclouds, composed by clouds of imagination drawn by participants from local workshops and by children in Argentina. For the Communities of Salinas Grandes, water is life. They have long-defended its environment against industrial lithium min...

Script of this episode// Welcome to the New Taipei City Art Museum. We invite you to explore Interwoven, the solo exhibition of artist Tomás Saraceno. In the 1970s, environmental movements framed “nature” as an object in need of protection and sought to return the world to a pre-industrial state of purity. Entering the twenty-first century, however, scholars introduced the concept of the Anthropoc...

Script of this episode// Try to imagine: if memories were tangible, what would they be like? Would they be stretched and folded by time, or would they be worn and torn to gradually disappear? If so, what would happen to handcrafting and laboring experiences carrying these memories? How would they be transmitted, changed, or even cease little by little during generational shifts? The story begins i...

Script of this episode// The story begins with the memories of this city. The opening exhibition of the New Taipei City Art Museum exhibited the images of the mining industry shot by the photographer CHANG Chao-tang, which not only document the laboring body, but also present the history of an industry that existed on this land. Stones, as a quotidian reality, used to be excavated and moved, chang...

Script of this episode// Have you noticed? The three displayed objects here are all from the Houtong Miner’s Culture and History Museum. The director of the museum, ZHOU Chao-nan, had worked in the mine since he was 14. After retiring and leaving the mine, he found that the stories of mining laborers were bit by bit forgotten. To maintain the memories, he called on other retired mining laborers to...

Script of this episode// A stone from the other side of the world brings a distinct story. For the artist Rayyane Tabet, the heirlooms from his great-grandfather are like a stone thrown into the water, stirring ripples in his mind and opening up a broader world for him. On the surface, his great-grandfather was an assistant to an archaeologist, but in truth, he undertook a mission as a government...

Script of this episode// The story should be traced back to April last year. At that time, the New Taipei City Art Museum started with the history of the city, exhibiting several works related to the textile industry in Xinzhuang. The exhibition planted a seed in the curatorial team’s minds: How will the memories of the city be if we retrospect them from the perspective of the textile industry? In...

Script of this episode// In the New Stone Age, stones are tools used for cutting, striking, twisting the yarn, and weaving fabrics. For archaeologists, stones are testaments to civilizations, telling the existence and history of ethnic groups silently. On the borderline between Israel and Lebanon, a stone has become a symbol of protest. In the front area of the venue, as the cultural theorist Edwa...