Charwei Tsai
Charwei Tsai nació en 1980 en Taiwán
Actualmente vive y trabaja en Taipei, Taiwán
Se graduó en Diseño Industrial e Historia del Arte y la Arquitectura en el Rhode Island School of Design (2002) y completó el programa de investigación de posgrado La Seine en la École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts en París (2010).
Multiples inquietudes altamente personales pero a la vez universales estimulan la práctica multimedia de Tsai. Temáticas geo-políticas, societales y espirituales estructuran un cuerpo de trabajo que alienta a la participación activa del espectador. Preocupada con la relación humano/naturaleza, Tsai medita sobre la compleja relación entre las creencias culturales, la espiritualidad, y la transitoriedad.
Charwei Tsai ha realizado exposiciones individuales a nivel internacional y ha participado en exposiciones y bienales internacionales, incluyendo proyectos y exposiciones individuales: The Womb & The Diamond, Live Forever Foundation, Taichung, Taiwan (2021), Jogja Biennale y Power of Intention : Reinventing the (prayer) Wheel, Rubin Museum, Nueva York (2019), Charwei Tsai : Bulaubulau, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA), Manchester, Reino Unido (2018), Hear Hear Singing, Commissaire para la Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, Reino Unido, Water Moon, Contemporary Art Institute, Villeurbanne / Rhône-Alpes, Francia, la Bienal de Sydney (2016), Simple Shapes en la Mori Art Museum, Tokio (2015) y el Centre Pompidou-Metz, Francia (2014), la Bienal de Sharjah (2013), Phantoms of Asia en el Asian Art Museum de San Francisco (2012), la Trienal de Yokohama (2011), la sexta Trienal Asia – Pacífico (2009), Traces of sacred, Centre Pompidou (2008), Thermocline of Art: New Asian Waves au ZKM Center of Art and Media, Karlsruhe (2007), la Bienal de Singapur (2006) y la Fondation Cartier, París (2005).
La obra de Tsai hace parte de colecciones públicas y privadas, tales como Tate Modern, Londres ; la Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane ; el M+ Collection, Hong Kong ; el Mori Art Museum, Tokio ; el Asian Art Museum, San Francisco ; la Kadist Foundation, San Francisco/Paris ; la Faurschou Fondation, Copenhague, el IAC, Villeurbanne, Francia y el Frac Lorraine, Francia.
Tsai también publica desde el 2005, semestralmente, una revista titulada Lovely Daze. La serie completa de Lovely Daze hace parte de las bibliotecas de la Tate Modern, Londres, Museo de Arte Moderno, Nueva York, Centre Pompidou, París, y el Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona.
Exhibition View, The Womb & The Diamond, Vital Art Center, Taiwan, 2021
Exhibition View, The Womb & The Diamond, Vital Art Center, Taiwan, 2021
Ndewa & Hamanangu, 2021 - Installation, Ikat Textile from Sumbra
The Womb and the Diamond, 2021 - Installation with Handblown glass, mirrors, and a diamond
The Womb and the Diamond, 2021 - Detail of the installation
The Womb and the Diamond, 2021 - Detail of the installation
Spiral Incense - Five Budha Principles, 2017 - Hand-inscribed spiral incenses - Exhibition view, IAC Villeurbanne, 2017
Spiral Incense - Hundred Syllable Mantra, 2016 - Hand-inscribed spiral incenses - Exhibition view, Biennale of Sydney, 2016
Spiral Incense - Five Budha Principles, 2017 - Hand-inscribed spiral incenses
Spiral Incense - Five Budha Principles, 2017 - Hand-inscribed spiral incenses - Detail
Reinventing the [prayer] Wheel, 2019 - Exhibition View, Rubin Museum, New York
Plane Tree Mantra, 2014 - Site specific installation - Performance view, Jardin des Plantes, Paris, 2014
Plane Tree Mantra, 2014 - Site specific installation - Performance view, Jardin des Plantes, Paris, 2014
A Dedication to the Sea - Exhibition View, Espace Louis Vuitton, Singapore, 2012
Bulaubulau - Exhibition View, CFCCA, Manchester, 2018
Bulaubulau - Exhibition View, CFCCA, Manchester, 2018
Driftwood, 2011 - Installation hand-inscribed driftwoods - Detail
Exhibition View, The Womb & The Diamond, Vital Space & Art Center, Taiwan, 2021
Water Moon - Exhibition view, IAC Villeurbanne, 2017
We Came Whirling Out of Nothingness XII-VII, 2020 - Ink, mica pigment, gum arabic on linen - Detail
We Came Whirling Out of Nothingness XI-IV, 2020 - Natural pigments and ink on rice paper
We Came Whirling Out of Nothingness XI-IV, 2020 - Natural pigments and ink on rice paper - Detail
We Came Whirling Out of Nothingness XI-III, 2020 - Natural pigments and ink on rice paper
We Came Whirling Out of Nothingness XI-III, 2020 - Natural pigments and ink on rice paper - Detail
We Came Whirling Out of Nothingness XI-I, 2020 - Natural pigments and ink on rice paper
We Came Whirling out of Nothingness VIII-V, 2017 - Water color and ink on rice paper
We Came Whirling out of Nothingness VIII-V, 2017 - Water color and ink on rice paper - Detail
A Dedication to the Victims of Pandemic (Turbo Marmoratus Raw) - Hand-inscribed group of shells
A Dedication to the Victims of Pandemic (Charonia Tritonis I), 2020 - Hand-inscribed pair of shells
A Dedication to the Victims of Pandemic (Turbo Marmoratus VI) - Hand-inscribed group of shells - Detail
Numbers, 2020 - Digital video, color, sound
Numbers, 2020 - Digital video, color, sound
Numbers, 2020 - Digital video, color, sound
Incense Mantra IV, 2013 - Digital photograph
Bulaubulau, 2018 - Digital video, color, sound
Bulaubulau, 2018 - Exhibition View, The Womb & The Diamond, Vital Art Center, Taiwan, 2021
Root of Desire, 2018 - Digital video, color, sound
Song of Chuchepati Camp, 2017 - Digital video, color, sound
Lanyu - Three Stories (Shi Na Paradna), 2012 - Digital video, color, sound
Lanyu - Three Stories (Hair Dance), 2012 - Digital video, color, sound
Lanyu - Three Stories, 2012 - Exhibition View, CFCCA, Manchester, 2018
Lanyu - Three Stories, 2012 - Exhibition View, Sharjah Biennial, 2012
Alba's Pilgrimage, 2012 - Digital video, b&w, sound
Hear Her Singing, 2017 - Digital video, b&w, sound
Hear Her Singing, 2017 - Digital video, b&w, sound
Water Moon - Exhibition view, IAC, Villeurbanne, 2017
Bardo, 2016 - Digital video, color, sound - Exhibition view, IAC, Villeurbanne, 2017
As It Is - Exhibition view, mor charpentier, Paris, 2017
Universe of Possibilities (Solitude), 2017 - Archival pigment print
Universe of Possibilities - Awakening, 2017 - Hand-Inscribed Photograph
Earth Mantra II, 2009 - Digital photograph
Earth Mantra I, 2009 - Digital photograph
Meat Map IV, 2008 - Digital photograph
Meat Map, 2008 - Digital photograph - Detail
Lotus Mantra II, 2006 - Digital photograph
Lotus Mantra II, 2006 - Digital photograph
Still Water Runs Deep - Exhibition view, Kaoshiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, 2018
In Memory of Poet Yu Kwang-Chung, 2018 - Series of drawings, watercolor and ink on rice paper
In Memory of Poet Yu Kwang-Chung, 2018 - Watercolor and ink on rice paper - Detail