The Archive Garden
The Archive Garden
Date of exhibition: 2025 16 Jul.~2025 13 Oct.
About the Exhibition
The way I look at this moment
Before I organize it
Piece by piece
Paragraph by paragraph
What I can see, what I can’t see
Bits and pieces
In the reorganization of everything
recorded
a leaf, a page, a night
left behind
put it down
The pottery artist Wei-Chu Chen kneads and fires life memories into pottery, transforming them into healing animal sculptures, cute ceramic plates, and daily life ceramics. The warmth of the ceramics brings a rustic feeling and serenity, which can be seen in the exhibition “The Archive Garden”.
Creative Concept
About the Artist – Wei-Chu Chen
The artist mainly creates animal ceramic sculpture dolls, ceramic plate paintings, and other ceramic works. Occasionally, monster-like figures appear in her pieces, blended with childhood memories and healing themes. When art comes to life, it is no longer an untouchable exhibit, but a playful scenery on the table, playing in a different world of imagination together.
She has undertaken an artist residency in Japan, Finland, and Yingge, Kinmen, Taiwan, and has also lived and worked in Japan. Her recent creations feature animals and birds unique to Taiwan’s natural environment, as well as the wind lion masters of Kinmen and the marine creatures of Penghu.
Date of exhibition: 2025 16 Jul.~2025 13 Oct.
About the Exhibition
The way I look at this moment
Before I organize it
Piece by piece
Paragraph by paragraph
What I can see, what I can’t see
Bits and pieces
In the reorganization of everything
recorded
a leaf, a page, a night
left behind
put it down
The pottery artist Wei-Chu Chen kneads and fires life memories into pottery, transforming them into healing animal sculptures, cute ceramic plates, and daily life ceramics. The warmth of the ceramics brings a rustic feeling and serenity, which can be seen in the exhibition “The Archive Garden”.
Creative Concept
Some of them are like missing, some of them are like liking.
Some grow slowly, some appear suddenly.
Some emotions are not yet finished, some have already taken shape.
Some things cannot be categorized yet.
But I want to leave them behind and collect them.
Leaving them behind is the beginning of creation.
The ones I leave behind, maybe I’ll let go of them,
and then someday they’ll take me to places I haven’t even thought of yet.
About the Artist – Wei-Chu Chen
The artist mainly creates animal ceramic sculpture dolls, ceramic plate paintings, and other ceramic works. Occasionally, monster-like figures appear in her pieces, blended with childhood memories and healing themes. When art comes to life, it is no longer an untouchable exhibit, but a playful scenery on the table, playing in a different world of imagination together.
She has undertaken an artist residency in Japan, Finland, and Yingge, Kinmen, Taiwan, and has also lived and worked in Japan. Her recent creations feature animals and birds unique to Taiwan’s natural environment, as well as the wind lion masters of Kinmen and the marine creatures of Penghu.
