Curator | TENG, Po-Jen
Participating Artists | AL POSHI、Anna Yun-Ching HAN、CHANG Kuang-Ho、CHANG Liang-I、CHEN Chin-Pao、CHEN Chun-Lu、CHEN Yung-Hsien、CHiNGLiSH WANG、CHOU Fang-Yu、CHUANG Ling、Civi Szu-Wei CHENG、DENG Nan-Guang、HSIEH Chih-Ching、Isa HO、JAMEI CHEN、JONG Yi-Ling、Joshua LIN、KUO Pei-Chi、LEE Ti-Chin、Leslie HSU、Liang SU、LIN Chien-Wen、LIN Hou-Jun、LIN Tien-Fu、LIU Chen-Hsiang、LIU Yi-Chun、LU Wei、Manbo Key、Nymph LEE、Qiqi CHEW、QUO Ying-Sheng、SHIY De-Jinn、SU Hou-Wen、TSAI Jung-Li、TSAI Ting-Bang
Exhibition Introduction |
Fashion in Flux: The Language We Wear begins at the intersection of photography and fashion, exploring how the body is perceived and remembered in images and how it gradually comes to convey cultural meanings and experiences across eras.
Fashion is a form of cultural language, articulated through clothing, gestures, the body, and images. Its fluid circulation depends on viewing, imitation, and reinterpretation, which reflect both how a society understands itself and how others perceive it. Together, clothing, gestures, and images constitute recognizable visual vocabularies, enabling emotions, identity, desire, and memory to take shape over time. A single garment can inspire imitation; a particular gesture can become a style; an image can influence or reshape our perception of ourselves and others. As these representations circulate through magazines, newspapers, advertisements, branding, and digital platforms, fashion emerges as an essential medium for cultural memory, social imagination, and the zeitgeist.
The exhibition is divided into two subthemes: “The Body as Language” on the third floor and “The Body as Spectrum” on the second. The first, starting with the body and the gaze, explores how images shape viewing dynamics, allowing the body to respond to the world. The second floor expands into everyday life, socio-cultural contexts, and digital technologies, showing how style becomes fluid, translated, and represented across different fields. Positioned vertically, these floors work together as two sides of the same coin: one focuses on how the body communicates, while the other examines how different eras leave imprints on the body.
This exhibition brings together thirty-five artists, ten of whom are women, and features early portraits (shashin), family photos, commercial photography, contemporary art, and artificial intelligence (AI) works, illustrating the ongoing evolution of Taiwanese fashion imagery across eras and media. Together, these works demonstrate that fashion transcends the mere display of style; it is an accumulation of ways of viewing, as well as a space where the body, culture, and society intersect.
When clothing appears in images, the body becomes readable text; when images infiltrate daily life, style becomes a means of recognizing ourselves and understanding the world. As a result, fashion shifts from being merely a wearable decoration to a cultural language that expresses existence, memory, and identity.
Through these works, we revisit a seemingly everyday yet deeply significant question: how we dress ourselves and, in the eyes of others, how we gradually come to see ourselves.