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“New Day Street + Treasure Hill : Selected Works 2008 - 2011 by Yeh Wei-li”
Artist Opening Reception: Friday, May 20, 2011
at Hanart Square
2/F., Mai On Building, 19 Kung Yip Street,
Kwai Chung, Hong Kong ( Kwai Hing MTR Station Exit A )
Exhibition Period: May 20 to June 30, 2011
Opening Hours: (Mon – Fri) 10am-6: 30pm (Sat) 10am-6pm (Sun) Closed
T | +(852) 2526-9019 W | www.hanart.com E | hanart@hanart.com
Born in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1971, Yeh Wei-Li immigrated to the United States at the age of eleven in 1982 and returned to reside in Taiwan in 2002. Yeh’s various photographic and textual based projects for the past decade centralize on the personal and socio-political relationships between oneself and the city in which he resides and are a continuation of his investigation into documentary practices and the broader ramifications on the relationship between the ‘guest’ and the subject of ‘home.’
In 2007, forces of urban renewal and cultural policies propelled photography-based artist Yeh to abandon his long-term studio/project based on the Treasure Hill Community, located in an illegal ramshackle settlement built on public land in Taipei City. Entitled “Treasure Hill Tea + Photo [ THTP ]”, Yeh's project ran from 2003 to late 2007 in this semi-derelict community. Yeh later took his community-based art practice outside of the metropolitan area and into Yangmei, the birthplace of his parents, where Yeh spent holidays and weekends as a young child. Housed in the defunct historical Pin-Jzeng Cinema, built in 1951 in the Pu-Hsin district of Yangmei Township, New Day Street began in 2008 as Yeh's private studio. In order to engage the community and strategically link contemporary art discourse and human resources of metropolitan Taipei to a small town, Yeh began to transform this cinema into a public exhibition and performance platform along with fellow artists, local relatives and neighbors.
The selected works from Yeh Wei-li’s two community projects “New Day Street” and “Treasure Hill” evolved and expanded into the further reconstruction of abandoned spaces into a photography facility and resource center with an outdoor performance space, a rain-collecting pond and a museum that houses salvaged objects from the community. The artist investigates and challenges the notion of ‘Art or Trash’ and also by juxtaposing them in a hierarchical relationship with ‘Antiquity’ in an attempt to see what narratives it could generate. The photography, text and video works of Yeh document and elucidate the reality of the now common and global phenomenon and practice of utilizing “Art and artists” as a tool and strategy in the process of urban renewal and revitalizing projects. We are invited to investigate with Yeh this global phenomenon and to contemplate as to how we can relate this to ourselves, our surroundings, situations and societies in Hong Kong.
Artist Opening Reception: Friday, May 20, 2011
at Hanart Square
2/F., Mai On Building, 19 Kung Yip Street,
Kwai Chung, Hong Kong ( Kwai Hing MTR Station Exit A )
Exhibition Period: May 20 to June 30, 2011
Opening Hours: (Mon – Fri) 10am-6: 30pm (Sat) 10am-6pm (Sun) Closed
T | +(852) 2526-9019 W | www.hanart.com E | hanart@hanart.com
Born in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1971, Yeh Wei-Li immigrated to the United States at the age of eleven in 1982 and returned to reside in Taiwan in 2002. Yeh’s various photographic and textual based projects for the past decade centralize on the personal and socio-political relationships between oneself and the city in which he resides and are a continuation of his investigation into documentary practices and the broader ramifications on the relationship between the ‘guest’ and the subject of ‘home.’
In 2007, forces of urban renewal and cultural policies propelled photography-based artist Yeh to abandon his long-term studio/project based on the Treasure Hill Community, located in an illegal ramshackle settlement built on public land in Taipei City. Entitled “Treasure Hill Tea + Photo [ THTP ]”, Yeh's project ran from 2003 to late 2007 in this semi-derelict community. Yeh later took his community-based art practice outside of the metropolitan area and into Yangmei, the birthplace of his parents, where Yeh spent holidays and weekends as a young child. Housed in the defunct historical Pin-Jzeng Cinema, built in 1951 in the Pu-Hsin district of Yangmei Township, New Day Street began in 2008 as Yeh's private studio. In order to engage the community and strategically link contemporary art discourse and human resources of metropolitan Taipei to a small town, Yeh began to transform this cinema into a public exhibition and performance platform along with fellow artists, local relatives and neighbors.
The selected works from Yeh Wei-li’s two community projects “New Day Street” and “Treasure Hill” evolved and expanded into the further reconstruction of abandoned spaces into a photography facility and resource center with an outdoor performance space, a rain-collecting pond and a museum that houses salvaged objects from the community. The artist investigates and challenges the notion of ‘Art or Trash’ and also by juxtaposing them in a hierarchical relationship with ‘Antiquity’ in an attempt to see what narratives it could generate. The photography, text and video works of Yeh document and elucidate the reality of the now common and global phenomenon and practice of utilizing “Art and artists” as a tool and strategy in the process of urban renewal and revitalizing projects. We are invited to investigate with Yeh this global phenomenon and to contemplate as to how we can relate this to ourselves, our surroundings, situations and societies in Hong Kong.
