Exhibition Works
Traces from the Edgelands
2025
Single-channel video, 10’00”
The landscape is both a threshold between the natural and the artificial, and a site of rupture between spatial order and institutional control. Traces from the Edgelands adopts a bird’s-eye perspective to observe various peripheral zones along Taiwan’s coastlines, including the shores of New Taipei, the fish farms of Changhua, the intertidal zones of Penghu, and stretches of concrete embankments. While these regions appear clearly delineated on maps, they simultaneously reveal the ambiguity and layered complexity inherent in the landscape. This work does not merely address the delineation of geographic boundaries, but instead turns toward a culturally grounded geographical perspective on place. “Place” is not only a matter of coordinates or location—it is a vessel of collective memory, a space shaped by emotional projection. From this standpoint, “borders” are no longer fixed or linear divisions, but dynamic and evolving relational networks shaped by history, institutions, movement, and imagination.
Huang was born in Kaohsiung, 1988, and has an MFA from the Department of Multimedia and Animation Arts, Graduate School of Multimedia and Animation Arts, National Taiwan University of Arts. The artist attempts to question the human living environment and cultural landscape based on the observation of the surrounding landscape and study on geographical chronicles, with a focus on social issues. Present image materials of urban and water landscapes by creative media such as video art and new media art installation, and rethink the relationship between urban space, cultural landscape and people through the creative practice process.
Huang has exhibited in “Vortex Quadrant: International Dynamic Media Art Exhibition” (Fuzhong 15, New Taipei City, 2025), the “Cultural Olympiad of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games” (Paris, France), “The Rupture” (National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, 2020), “Digital Art Festival Taipei” (Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, 2019), and “The Era of Compound Eyes—RANDOMIZE International Unstable Media Art Festival” (Xichang 134, 2019). His works have received numerous awards, including the 2021 Made in Taiwan—Young Artist Discovery Award (Ministry of Culture, Taiwan), the Huangsi Prize in Digital Art at the 2021 Huangsi Fine Arts Exhibition, the 2020 Next Art Tainan Award, First Prize in Digital Art at the 2020 Da Dun Fine Arts Exhibition, and First Prize in New Media Art at the Keelung Fine Arts Exhibition in 2020, 2019, and 2018.
Han-Po HUANG