When intimate family memories intertwine with public streetscapes, how do artists, through their creative practices, situate the body and emotions across different contexts?

This talk was moderated by curator Hsieh Yu-Ting, and featured a conversation with artists Hsiao Yu-Chi and Kuo Chan-Yuan. Yu-Chi’s works function as emotional spatiotemporal vessels, delicately layering deep connections between herself, her mother, her family, and the surrounding environment. Jaan-Yuan, on the other hand, employs sculpture as a mode of translation, approaching space from a feminine perspective to explore the survival strategies individuals enact within spatial contexts.

Starting from their own lived experiences, the two artists extended their gaze from the subtle realm of domestic space to the alleyways and streets of Yancheng. How do they perceive the traces that have been left behind? And how do they discover landscapes that resonate with their own experiences within the folds of local memory?