Current Exhibition
Camouflage - Subtleties Reinvestigated
Wu Peishan Solo Exhibition
Duration
2024.12.14 - 2025.1.19
This paper attempts to explore the possibilities of fiber creation on the medium, and introduces objects and events that transcend time and space in fiber art. Through the conversion of media, knowledge subjects, and technological inventions, it proposes descriptions that are relatively blank in the language of fiber art, and extends the possibilities of viewing.
As jacquard technology developed rapidly, new changes also occurred in fabric weave design. A special layered combination design mode was invented. This design mode was influenced by the principle of printing and used a special weave structure to achieve the effect of mixing a few colors to simulate multiple colors, so that the color weave of landscape fabrics can be infinitely changed. In fact, the basic five primary colors are used, using the three primary colors of red, yellow, and blue, plus black and white, or the six primary colors, and the four colors of red, yellow, blue, and green plus black and white. As long as this color is woven in, various colors can be mixed and produced. Through the use of images, the image element of fiber art lies in the texture design, that is, the structural organization, which brings endless creative resources to the creators and achieves mutual interaction and influence between the two subjects.
Camouflage means disguise and concealment. Its color layout is intended to blend into the background and confuse vision. Camouflage fabric is woven with industrial jacquard machines using the basic green-brown color of camouflage. The jacquard multi-color weave produces a positive and negative effect. Then, the color code is used as a parameter in electronic program coding to form a light code, creating a new visual experience. The intention is to find the meaning of color in the flow of different visual systems.
Wu Peishan
Pei-Shan Wu graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at the National Taiwan Normal University. She initially studied painting. While painting, she liked to depict the texture of cloth, and then used cloth in her paintings. After graduating from university, she chose to study at the Fiber Department of the Institute of Applied Arts at the National Tainan University of the Arts, and switched to research in the field of fiber art. She continued to create composite media works mainly based on fiber materials. At the same time, she taught, curated, and wrote. She is currently a full-time assistant professor at the Institute of Applied Arts at the National Tainan University of the Arts.
"Disassembly" is a creative technique often used by Wu Pei-shan. Through unconscious "disassembly" actions, she connects deconstruction in an abstract sense. Most of her works explore the relationship between "matter and memory". In recent years, she has also invested in the research of industrial production and manufacturing, using machines as an extension of "hands".
Wu Peishan actively participates in important international competitions and exhibitions. She was selected for the 2003 and 2005 Lithuanian International Textile Art Exhibition, the 2005 Munich TALENTE 2005 International Competition Special Exhibition, the 2010 SOFT 4 Spanish Fourth International Fiber Fashion Accessories Biennial, the 2012 Andarje International Fashion and Textile Design Biennial, and won the 2010 Italian Valenciennes Prize - Silver Award for International Contemporary Textile and Fiber Art Competition, the 2016 Lodz International Textile Triennial, etc. She has a rich experience in exhibitions and a record of awards. He also planned the 2017 "Craft Reference-Taiwan. Kanazawa Contemporary Textile Art Exchange Exhibition", Kanazawa 21st Century Museum of Art, 2022 "Color Theater" London Craft Week, London, Gallery@oxo and other domestic and foreign fiber exhibitions. He also wrote a series of books on fiber practice.
