Date: Oct. 20~Dec. 3, 2006
Venue: Gallery 102, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts
Opening Hours: 10:00-17:00, Tue~Sun

Born in 1973, Yeh Yi-Li graduated from Taipei National University of the Arts in 1995 and then from the Graduated Institute of Applied Arts, Tainan National University of the Arts in 2000. Her work won an honorary mention in the 2000 Taipei Fine Arts Exhibition.

KUSO, the theme of the her solo exhibition, is a term that originated from Japanese. It means “feces,” “damned,” “funny,” “nonsense,” “idiocy,” “mischievous tricks” and etc. In Taiwan’s pop culture, internet subculture and video gamers’ communities, it became a trendy term that suggests “making fun of anything, playing practical jokes on everything.” KUSO subverts conventional values and turns things into garbage. It has no limits, history, agendas or logic. Like an amoeba, it is a subculture phenomenon that has no rules. Based on it, Yeh created the Worm-man that drags its body and slithers in the ever-changing world. In different kinds of worlds, the Worm-man develops into different phases. As phenomena are happening, it is also transforming. The Worm-man has multiple possibilities, multiple personalities and multiple identities.

The artist thinks the modern civilization is gradually moving towards a war between living things and non-life objects, between creation and non-creation. As humans, subjects of consciousness, in the environment filled with paradoxes and competitions, we must understand and face the paradox of the polarity. In killing cycles and changing hands of power, we inevitably cannot get away from the fatalism. Yeh’s observations led her to create instinctively the germ-like character in her performance art. She puts on her germ-like costume and peddles her freewheeling sense of humor from city to city. Spreading the “germ” freely is her expression about the relationship between life and art.

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