THE THIRD is pleased to present “Drift,” a project exhibition opening at LIGHTWELL, Taipei, on view from October 18 through November 2, 2025, in conjunction with Taipei Art Week 2025.
Drift is explored through the work of three artists, each engaging the concept of drifting from a distinct perspective. The exhibition moves beyond fixed centers and predetermined hierarchies, tracing fluid movements and intersecting trajectories through which new modes of perception and narration emerge. Here, drifting is framed not as uncertainty, but as a generative condition, an opening toward transition, expansion, and renewal.
Lee Wan examines how social systems and institutional frameworks operate upon the individual. His installations, sculptures, and paintings reconfigure familiar symbols and consumer objects as instruments of transformation. Through these altered forms, he reveals the tensions and contradictions embedded within collective structures, redefining the everyday as a site where latent conditions surface and acquire new significance. Seahee Chang considers how climate change and environmental shifts affect the rhythms of human existence. Her video installations register unstable flows and unpredictable transitions, giving form to the dynamic interplay between human and nonhuman agents. In her work, drifting emerges not as a marker of crisis, but as a process in which coexistence and potential converge. Jungwon Phee investigates how emotions and memories are abstracted into forms that drift and reverberate. For this exhibition, his practice extends into installation, where layers of affect unfold across space and time. The viewer moves between states of reality and memory, the personal and the collective, encountering an expanded field of emotional resonance.
Drift positions drifting as constructive rather than dissolutive, an active process of renewal rather than a sign of loss. Within these transitional states, new sensibilities and relations emerge, offering another language through which to reflect upon the conditions of the present.
