Double Square 双方藝廊

Double Square Gallery is delighted to present Wandering on the Boundary the latest solo exhibition by Ou Li-Ting, which will run from July 19 to August 30, 2025. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery since the 2023 group exhibition, Haven’t Seen Abraham. The exhibition features over ten sculptural pieces that explore the artist’s personal struggles and reflections as she navigates between everyday physical spaces and the psychological realm. These works respond to spatial experiences and embody the artist’s ongoing observations and thoughts on the connection between the self and the external environment. By reconfiguring forms and transforming materials, Ou examines life through everyday tensions and infuses her works with new structures and imagination.

The exhibition title, Wandering on the Boundary, signifies a sense of drifting between two places, reflecting the artist’s continuous intersection of family life and creative space. Over the past seven years, Li-Ting has worked in her home garage, where her living and working environments overlapped. It was not until early last year that she moved her studio to the suburbs, away from the city. Her daily two-hour commute has since served as a time for reflecting on the boundaries between the self and her surroundings.

Li-Ting primarily works with metal, using computer modeling and repeatedly cutting paper patterns to achieve her ideal forms. She then handcrafts them by welding metal sheets into shapes that reflect her creative themes—the process of finding inspiration in life, reconstructing, and assembling serves as a microcosm of self-discovery.

This exhibition features two new series: sinnh-nà and Shimmering. The former derives its name from the Taiwanese word for “Thunder”, metaphoring the sparks in human interactions. The artist juxtaposes rounded and sharp crescent shapes, processed with mirror polishing, to reflect individual characteristics as well as the similarities and differences within interpersonal relationships. The latter is inspired by flowing sea waves, exploring fluctuations in emotions and family memories. By simplifying, deconstructing, and reassembling seascapes, the works evoke images resembling snippets of memory. The textured surfaces, created using seawater corrosion, symbolize eroded emotions. Among the series, Shimmering III employs layered texture to crystallize feelings and memories amidst crashing waves, transforming them into a crystalline form.

Wandering on the Boundary resembles a profound dialogue between space, the body, and memory. The artist engages in contemplative, repetitive physical actions to turn her life experiences into the lines and structures of her works. Throughout the process, techniques such as welding, grinding, dyeing, and rusting serve not only as technical steps but also as reflections of her life philosophy. Through sculpture and the interplay of light and shadow, her works respond to the tension and longing of everyday life, creating a poetic and intimate emotional space layered with handcrafted marks. It becomes a place of self-reflection and reconstruction, embodying the manual act of welding borders. These elements not only shape the physical forms of her works; they also serve as emotional vessels existing in the transient state between “here” and “there.”

Ou Li-Ting (b. 1986) is currently based in Tainan, Taiwan. She holds a BFA in Applied Arts from Fu Jen Catholic University and earned her MFA from Tainan National University of the Arts. With a background in metalwork, Ou learned TIG welding techniques during graduate school and has since worked with steel as her artistic material, shifting her practice from jewelry to objects and sculptures. She draws inspiration from architectural space and structure, creating imaginary forms based on her life experiences. For her, various spatial forms and constructions are different projections of herself and reflections of daily life.