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LIN Yen Wei
Nov 6 - Dec 13, 2020

LIN Yen Wei

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  • “What I remember most is a big pair of hands lifting me up, setting me up on a giraffe’s back at twice my own height.

    The way those statues towered over us, they seemed to belong completely to the same continuum as those adults who watched over us.”--LIN Yen Wei

  • A lot of us remember those animal statues from our childhoods, made on a real-life scale. It seems that they once flashed through our memories, but their faces were unclear, and what we really recall is that feeling of closeness and familiarity. But, over time, their closeness and familiarity have disappeared. Looking at them again, LIN finds an air of strangeness as they smile apologetically from that space they now inappropriately inhabit. Their smiles have not diminished, but time has added a layer of wear and weariness, which sardonically highlights the helplessness and paradox of their existence.

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  • LIN Yen Wei's Studio, 2020.

  • LIN’s painting series of such statues as well as toys. The works follow the same sequence of thought regarding images, painting, and LIN’s investigation of the continuums inhabited by these talismanic objects. Those continuums are ambiguous, located between what is real and what is false, between present and past, and between our uncertainties about our experience. An unusual feeling of distance now surrounds those toys and statues, once they’ve been bizarrely decorated by a third party, along with the extra surrealism of photography and the narratives of painting. That distance signals us that another kind of real existence is there for them, once their original reality has been rewritten and reworked.

     

     

  • 林彥瑋 LIN Yen Wei
    就是喜歡你這樣 16 Just Like the Way You Are 16, 2020
    油彩/畫布 Oil on canvas
    50 3/4 x 76 3/8 in
    129 x 194 cm
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    • 林彥瑋 LIN Yen Wei, 就是喜歡你這樣 17 Just Like the Way You Are 17, 2020
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    • 林彥瑋 LIN Yen Wei, See You Again 1, 2020
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  • "I think the composition of the portrait is enclosed yet full of possibilities. It can reveal the soul and temperament of the subject. At the same time I use the approach of still life painting, mainly to observe the three-dimensionality and texture of the subject, including the temporality shown on its weathered body. These characteristics allow me to create portraits in the way of still life paintings. It’s ideal because it embodies both elements." -- LIN Yen Wei

     

     

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  • Installation view at Eslite Gallery

    • 林彥瑋 LIN Yen Wei, 就是喜歡你這樣 10 Just Like the Way You Are 10, 2012
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    • 林彥瑋 LIN Yen Wei, 就是喜歡你這樣 20 Just Like the Way You Are 20, 2014
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    • 林彥瑋 LIN YEN WEI: 就是喜歡你這樣 18 JUST LIKE THE WAY YOU ARE 18, 2014

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  • The park statue. Photo by LIN Yen Wei

  • "Sculptures themselves are an awkward existence. It’s like a photographed moment that is brought to life. It’s like when you watch a movie and suddenly the image freezes. It’s awkward…the face can even be ugly. These sculptures are created and erected at a place. That is the kind of existence I want to bring back to photography." -- LIN Yen Wei

     

     

    • 林彥瑋 LIN Yen Wei, 是你嗎 No. 1 Is It You No. 1, 2020
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    • 林彥瑋 LIN Yen Wei, 公園的鴿子 Pigeons in the Park, 2020
      林彥瑋 LIN Yen Wei, 公園的鴿子 Pigeons in the Park, 2020
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    • 林彥瑋 LIN Yen Wei, 側視-爪(習作) Peripheral Vision-Claws (Study), 2017
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    • 林彥瑋 LIN Yen Wei, 就是喜歡你這樣 26 Just Like the Way You Are 26, 2014
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    • 林彥瑋 LIN Yen Wei, 就是喜歡你這樣 07 Just Like the Way You Are 07, 2011
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    • 林彥瑋 LIN Yen Wei, 星球 Planet, 2019
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    • 林彥瑋 LIN Yen Wei, 蝸牛 Snail, 2019
      林彥瑋 LIN Yen Wei, 蝸牛 Snail, 2019
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  • "My subjects are painted larger than life because I want to amplify the mental distance between them and the audience. The sheer size creates a sense of unrest and oppression, while the “micro-perspective” allows a different viewing experience that is what Bertolt Brecht (1898~1956) called the 'defamiliarization effect'." -- LIN Yen Wei

     

     

     

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  • Little toys in LIN Yen Wei's studio. Photo by LIN Yen Wei.

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    • 林彥瑋 LIN Yen Wei, 玩物參照 22 Plaything Study 22, 2020
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  • "Unfamiliarity is a concept of relativity. Today, photography can defamiliarize things you are familiar with through perspective, color, size and exposure to generate a new visual experience. This is what photography is capable of, defamiliarization. You can also familiarize things that are unfamiliar and unreachable, such as pictures of celebrities, or scenery photos of places you’ve never been to. You might actually feel strange when seeing them with your own eyes. This capacity of photography to create understanding is something very important in my paintings. It allows the subject to withdraw from itself to a certain extent, and then I’d use painting to reinforce this withdrawal, which is akin to translation or a remake." -- LIN Yen Wei

     

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    • 林彥瑋 LIN Yen Wei, 玩物參照 07 Plaything Study 07, 2012
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    • 林彥瑋 LIN Yen Wei, 玩物參照 02 Plaything Study 02, 2011
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    Lin Yen Wei’s “Just Like the Way You Are” and “Plaything Study” series touch upon a part of art history that is rarely explored. The new interpretations and visual experiences he offer are like adventures, in which the most magical part lies in the opportunity for us to catch a glimpse of the “air” of the animals, just like the animula, the little soul of an individual, described by Roland Barthes; as well as the sense of time that Lin created with these images. As Lin once said in a statement: Time is unsolved mystery, and I am forever fascinated by the time proposed by photography and painting; I seek to interpret the kind of time I invent, chaotic and vast, for its embrace of photography, painting, memory and experience.

     

     

  • LIN Yen Wei

     

    • 1987 Born in Pingtung, Taiwan
    • 2007 BA, Department of Fine Arts, National University of Tainan, Tainan, Taiwan
    • 2012 MFA, Department of Arts and Design, National Hsinchu University of Education, Hsinchu, Taiwan
    • Now lives and works in Hsinchu, Taiwan
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