南海藝廊 Nanhai Gallery

“The Gross Anatomy Course: Body [re:]Mix” originated from a pure thought: when Jia-Ming was taking care of his mother, who suffered from cancer, he discovered that the declination of her physiological index made her lost in the search of meanings for her body. Confronting with the death, we realize how fragile our body is, and how precious our life is. However, what value of body remains after we've been through birth, aging, illness, and death in the era of thriving medicine and technology? What do contemporary artists choose to respond when prolonging lifespan and maintaining the body image become the tendency that the contemporary medical science and technology struggle for development? This exhibition attempts to reveal the veil to cognize the ego state by the experiences of bodily senses from the reconstruction of the body image, from the visual signs that are constructed by the contemporary social culture, from the dissimilation of ideology and inherency, and from real world's symbolic mark level. We combine nine Taiwanese artists and French traveling artists to perform another kind of “dissection,” proposing another idea to interpret and to observe the heterogeneity of body by ways of artistic media of every variety such as video recording, sound apparatus, photographing, and plane painting. Return to your own bodily experience, starting to talk with medicine and science via multiplex artistic expressive forms in the dim life full of clamors. This time, hand over the microphone and let the “body” talk.