TAIWANESE ARTIST JOINS EUROPE-THEMED EXHIBITION AT THE V&A
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The work of Tu Wei-Cheng, one of Taiwan’s leading artists, has featured at an exhibition at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum. The ‘Collecting Europe’ exhibition, which ran from 1-7 February, asked 12 artists to imagine what it would be like to live in the year 4017 and observe artefacts from 2017.
Tu Wei-cheng approached the question by designing a distorted and corroded installation set. Posing as an archaeological site discovered in 4017, the fragmented metal plate intrigues the archaeologists of an imaginary future as they ponder what sealed the fate of European civilisation.
Mr Tu’s installation, entitled ‘Enfolded World: Mysteries of Lost Civilisations’ employs his characteristic practice of creating parallel or re-imagined worlds. Tu invited 50 members of the Taiwanese public to bring 10 to 15 items that held a connection to Europe, and those items were pressed in a clay mould and incorporated into the design.
