2024, Chin Chin Gallery, Tainan, Taiwan •
南倉 South Warehouse at Chin Chin Gallery in Tainan, an exhibition of 48 tea wares, was made in Taipei and in Dallas. Taiwan’s landscape of steep mountains surrounded directly by ocean or intermediate zones of marsh or jungle is reflected in the fluid give and take, the release and retention, and the concentration and dissolution of Taiwan’s most celebrated products: semiconductors and tea. The information concentrated in their containers flows through very different forms, but both are ceramic: silicon wafers and teapots. The color palette broadened and intensified thanks to the 2023 Cloud Forest residency. Notable is the redoubled expanse of forms, all the while doubling down on attention to surface. Credit is due to the rich environments in Taiwan—including the splendid studio of Tang Runqing in the mountains of Miaoli—and the consistent current of artistic energy conducted back and forth across the Pacific Ocean between Taiwan and Texas.
