KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS — Three Episodes of Mourning Exercises

10 — 12.05, 16 — 19.05, 23 — 26.05, 30.05 — 01.06

Hsu Che‑Yu^{Taipei-Amsterdam}

Three Episodes of Mourning Exercises

visual arts / film

Mandarin → NL, FR | €6 / €4

With his first solo exhibition in Belgium, Hsu Che-Yu presents a series of objects and works that together form an original landscape on the idea of mourning. The impressive triptych Three Episodes of Mourning Exercises takes centre stage, consisting of three of his latest video works and as many stories about loss. Zoo Hypothesis recounts the animal-to-animal mourning ritual created by zookeepers who trained animals to kneel and perform gestures of worship to commemorate animals that have died due to warfare. In Blank Photograph, the memories of a terrorist bomber are juxtaposed with his brother's suicide in the family home, presenting death as a tension between the individual and the collective. Finally, Gray Room is a tribute to the artist's deceased grandmother, recalling the experience of bodily perception in her house while contemplating death and memory from a material perspective. To produce his video works, Che-Yu works with the 3D scanning technique also used by the Taiwanese police to collect forensic evidence, identify fragmented or decomposing bodies and examine crime scenes. Multiple exercises in mourning that explore the representations, constructions and alienations of memory and death as an intimate event. A breathtaking experience.

“Hsu Che-Yu ingeniously amalgamates true tragedies of our world with technologies including animation and film to create compelling humanistic works.”
Han Nefkens Foundation - Loop Barcelona Video Art Production Award 2022

10.05

12:00 → 19:00
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11.05

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12.05

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16.05

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17.05

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18.05

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19.05

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23.05

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24.05

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25.05

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26.05

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30.05

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31.05

12:00 → 19:00
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01.06

12:00 → 19:00
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Presentation: Kunstenfestivaldesarts, argos centre for visual arts
Three Episodes of Mourning Exercises is an exhibition by Hsu Che-Yu, created by Hsu Che-Yu (artist) and Chen Wan-Yin (scriptwriter)