Ambush
2019/04/27 - 2019/07/21 Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
In Ambush, artist Ni Hao presents new sculptures and installations which explore various systems and structures of power, speed and violence that are produced within geopolitics and resonate in everyday life. Many of the works are extensions of objects that are designed to effectively destroy, manipulate or control, such as guns, credit cards and machines. Musical instruments are also taken as constructions to process the aggressive effects of such structural mechanisms.
Two interactive plastic card shooting machines transform part of the exhibition space into a shooting range, as an interpretation of the ruthlessness that is enacted through the global financial system. A wind instrument machine powered by air compressors, accompanied by videos made in collaboration with professional drummers, studies the impact of movement, speed, and force through sound. Lastly, there are sculptures based on various armed conflicts that have taken place globally in recent years. Through these articulations, the work attempts to crystallize different violence in concrete forms
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work list:
①
White rice & Fried Rice
2016
Dyed HDPE plastic, wax, rubber, burnt photographs, burnt found objects, resin inside wooden frame
61 cm x 91 cm
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Ambush
2019
router, motors, censors and other hardwares inside fiberglass, printed or spray painted PVC cards, steel, plastic, wood, unfired clay, store bought glasswares and ceramicwares, office tables and chairs, telephones, fake laptops and cellphones
700cm x 360cm x 300cm
③
Spin
2019
half-broken flat screen TVs, recorded and found Go Pro videos
approximately 250cm x 450cm
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2015 ~ 2019
HDPE plastic, wax, rubber and engraved glass in plastic bowls; ash, ashtrays, cigarettes, acrylic paint, steel, matches dimension variable
⑤
Breath I, II ＆ III
2019
embossed, gold and silver foil stamped and printed PVC plastic cards, aluminum, steel and plastic hardwares, servo motors and other machine parts and sensors
approximately 135 cm x 86cm x 20cm each
⑥
Structure Study V
2018
plastic recorder flutes, bamboo flutes, cow horns, plastic toy trumpets, Chinese mouth organs, PVC pipes, air compressors, pneumatic hoses, solenoid air valves with timers approximately 190cm x 250cm x 250cm
⑦
Residue
2015 ~ 2016
enamel paint, lead solder, and magnets on cast plastic airplaneand space shuttles inside of fluorescent light lightboxes
61cm x 122cm x 15cm each
⑧
Fresh ttears, hot blood, wet kisses
2014
car letters and emblems pressed into industrial air filter apprixmately 61 cm x 107 cm x 13 cm
⑨
Structure Study VI
2019
3 drummers mimic and perform series of youtube videos; multi-channel videos projected on walls
size variable,
video play time 25:00 minutes
⑩
Negotiation of Desire (flags),
2018
acrylic paint on acrylic glass,
approximately 80cm x 80cm x 220cm each
⑪
Tears (tissue holders from the 911 Memorial Museum)
2019
steel, wood, tissue paper
90cm x 25cm x 30cm each
⑫
Desert of the Real,
2019
wooden table with steel legs, fluorescent lights powered by Tesla coils sand, AR15 hand guards, counterfeit ISIS coins approximately 600 cm x 300 cm x 100 cm
⑬
Barriers
2019
embroidered shirts on razor wires,
approximately 220 cm x 120 cm
⑭
SVBIED I & II
2019
oil on canvas
145.5 × 97cm each
⑮
Riceball
2016
HDPE plastic, wax, rubber, resin and embroidered clothes on wooden pedestal.
162.6 cm x 71.1 cm x 71.1 cm
