Su Hui-Yu
1976, born in Taipei, Taiwan. Lives and works in Taipei.
Education
2003 MFA, Taipei National University of the Arts
1998 B. A. in Fine Art, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2014 Day& Night, Apartment of Art, Munich, Germeny
Whale Mass Suicide, IT Park, Taipei, Taiwan
A Poignant Dance in the Mass Media History, AM Space, Hong Kong, China
2012 The Upcoming Show, VT Artsalon, Taipei, Taiwan
2010 Stilnox Home Video, Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2009 The Fabled Shoots ll – Bloody Beauty, Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2007 The Fabled Shoots, VT Artsalon, Taipei, Taiwan
2006 My Pop Life, IT Park, Taipei, Taiwan
2005 Endless Recalling, Chi-Wen Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014 7th Move on Asia, Gallery LOOP, Seoul, Korea
2013 Reecho. Mingyuan Zhongshan Park Project, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
6th VIDEOHOLICA Video Art Festival, Varna, Bulgaria
Gazing into Freedom: Taiwan Contemporary Art Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina in Novi Sad, Serbia
Discover Zone- Luxembourg City Film Festival 2013, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2012 Dialogue in Contemporary Video Art, National Taiwan Museum of Art, Taichung, Taiwan
Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2011 Live Ammo, MOCA Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
2010 Eattopia- Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Taipei Biennial- Artist Cinema, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
MID_E International Contemporary Art Exhibition,Arteleku, San Sebastian,Spain
The Contemporary Art of Taiwan, Gyeongnam Art Museum, Gyeongnam, Korea
Plastic Life, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, U.S.A.
2008 The Taishin Arts Award, MOCA Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
Illusion Theater, Blue Dot Asia ,Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2007 Poetic Terrorism, FEM Festival, Madrid, Spain
Very Fun Park II, Fubon Art Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan
2006 Wrong(ed) Attitudes – Tsui Kuang-yu & Su Hui-yu, Sparwasser HQ, Berlin, Germany;
Cultural Centre of Taiwan in Paris, Paris, France
2005 The New Taiwanese – Digital Witnesses, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
Pseudo Hackers' Art in Parallel Zones, MOCA Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
2002 CO2-Taiwan Avant-Garde Documenta, Huashan Arts District, Taipei, Taiwan
The Field of the Texts, Main Trend Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Award
2008 ACC(Asian Cultural Council), Yageo Tech-Art Award
Artist in Residence
2014 Apartment of Art, Munich, Germany
2013 Egon Schiele Art Center, Cesky Krumlov , Czech
2009 Harvestworks Digital Arts Center, New York , USA
2008 18th Street Arts Center , Los Angeles , USA
2004 18th Street Arts Center , Los Angeles , USA
Artist Statement
Day and Night comprises two videos. The first is my 2010 Stilnox Home Video: The Midnight Hours, which is about my experiences watching television and being an insomniac. Every night I took a sleeping pill, but still could not sleep and so stared at the television until my apartment turned into a bizarre and fantastic scene. The next day upon waking, my drug-induced fantasies and dreams became mixed with television images and memories of everyday life. My motivation for the work is to explore limits between fantasy and reality, and imagery and reality, while describing relationships between somatic symptom disorder and media inundation in contemporary life.
The second work is my most recent Papa Is Not Here, which was inspired by my experiences as a new father and completed in 2014. I tend to fall asleep in the morning when watching my children and have realized they often continue playing without knowing what is happening. This is a very familiar scene; in the play areas set aside for children in large shopping centers, we can observe the contrast between exhausted and expressionless parents and their children who are full of life. This dizzy moment reminds me of several haunting scenes and situations seemingly unrelated to children, such as death.
One work is about a television watcher who cannot sleep at night, while the other is about a father napping during the day. These works present time and activity that are turned upside-down, and perhaps more disorder can present a clearer view of reality. I realized that showing these two works together, with their fixed, dense or slowly moving imagery, would make viewers become passively confused by the suspended and protracted treatments of time in the works. Viewers are no longer able to trust the moment they occupy or decipher fantasy from reality, but perhaps this is the only way to witness truth. The two works also touch on the idea of gray areas, such as liminal states situated between night and day, waking or sleeping, or fantasy and reality. In these liminal zones, one can realize being alive (clear consciousness), being dead (no consciousness), being sexual (focus on the body) and many other long hidden states.