Author Archives: jolanta

Since 2004, the three of us have wanted to work on a project about the human body. The Translucence series finally materialized in 2006, shaped by our fascination/obsession with bodies and classical art. When UNMASK originated, we each adopted a character meant to represent idealized versions of our actual physical forms. Through these disguises we […]

I have fallen in love with a tree in the middle of a gigantic parking lot. I cannot really explain how this happened, but love is a hard thing to explain. The tree is not something that most people notice, except as a source of shade for their cars. Yet, somehow, on a beautiful summer […]

My work consists of wall-based sculptures that are made up of intricately crafted components often tinged with somber qualities. I use words and familiar sayings as a starting point to create sculptures tinged with a tongue-in-cheek approach to language. Language is a set of recognized symbols that enable us to communicate with one another. However, […]

I grew up in a shaky old New England house. If only I could tell you the stories of our ghosts! There was history in that place: antiques resting on the dirt floor in the basement, a staircase to the attic that came loose to reveal all kinds of hidden relics, glass bottles resting in […]

The works—paintings, drawings, and constructed objects—consider the formless and the removal of narrative content. Devoid of representation, they occupy occasional and temporal sites of depiction. Undisclosed they entertain and inform contrivances of landmass, typography, and architectural configuration, embracing optical distortion in their circumvention of representational form. They draw on internal structures of mark, material, and […]

Xie Su-Zhen: As an architect, why are you spending so much time and energy making art? Cheng Da-Peng: For fun! I have to do it! Xie: Can you talk about why you engage in “sculptural projects?” Is this an act of criticism on reality or an act of reflection? Cheng: A sculptural project reminds me […]

Something arrests you when you enter Sigalit Landau’s Cycle Spun exhibit at MoMA and encounter a wall-sized projection of 500 floating watermelons. Connected by a cord and wound into a spiral, the globular fruits are drifting on the ultra-salty waters of the Dead Sea. Some of them have been split open, revealing their intensely red […]

Taitung County in Taiwan is an area where development is the slowest and population is the lowest. Most of the residents are aborigines, whose lives move at a slow pace. In a small village near the Pacific, Dulan, reside many artists. Some of them came from other cities; others are locals. They have different lifestyles, […]