Double Square 双方藝廊

A Total Story is an international collaborative exhibition co-organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei (MoCA TAIPEI) and the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (MAMBO), on view at MAMBO from 24 October 2025 to 15 February 2026. The exhibition originates from artist Su Hui-Yu’s 2023 solo show The Trio Hall – Su Hui-Yu Solo Exhibition at MoCA TAIPEI, curated by Eugenio Viola, who now serves as the Artistic Director of MAMBO. Together, MoCA TAIPEI and MAMBO bring The Trio Hall to Colombia in 2025, presenting it as a new chapter of the project and one of MAMBO’s major international exhibition programs of the year. This collaboration continues MoCA TAIPEI’s long-term commitment to fostering international exchange, aiming to strengthen dialogue and professional connections between Taiwanese artists and leading art institutions worldwide.

A Total Story revolves around the making of history and narrative, revisiting historical memory, and opening up possibilities for new imaginations. Based on Su Hui-Yu's 2023 film/exhibition project The Trio Hall, this solo show again explores the complex relationships between technology and the social, ideological, historical, and geopolitical landscape of Taiwan –a country that has recently gained prominence for its role in the semiconductor and technology manufacturing sectors. Su attempts to reflect on how this region, influenced by various empires including the Han Chinese, Dutch, Spanish, French, Japanese, and Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang, has transformed since its democratization in the 1990s into a crucial player in the global computing and technology supply chain. This transformation has enriched the nation, but has also positioned it precariously within the geopolitical tensions of superpowers' battle for influence and resources.

In this exhibition, Su and guest artist Cheng Hsien-Yu will present a new performance during the opening, combining the historical context of Colombia with the historical structures of Taiwan, thereby delving into the impact of history, capitalism, technology, and geopolitics on the present. Su seeks to present a multifaceted political satire through an exhibition and performance structure, engaging audiences in a "total conversation" about the narratives of history and civilization.

At the same time, the term "Total Story" also cleverly references art history, evoking the concept of "Total Art" promoted by Wagner and inherited in 20th-century modernism. Su posits that mainstream art history has been predominantly shaped by the West, establishing a "first universe," an absolute coordinate from the outset. While the concept of Total Art may seem naive or arrogant today, humanity's pursuit of omniscience through imaging technology remains unwavering. Therefore, it can be argued that the modernity this work aims to achieve seems impossible, yet humanity continues to pursue it with unwavering desire. As an artistic experience, A Total Story attempts to transform these dialectical processes into reflections on aesthetics and metaphysics.

In addition to the new works A Total Story and The Trio Hall, this exhibition also includes Su Hui-Yu's previous and recent series The Space Warriors and the Digigrave (2023/2025), The Women's Revenge (2020), The Walker (2017), and Life, Pleasure, and the Reading Room (2017). This collection of new and old works embodies Su's "Re-shooting" theory, connecting two endpoints on the timeline – the present and the past, and in interpreting open intertextual relationships, stitching together the differences between old and new texts, constructing multiple and divergent extensions of meaning between the past and the present. The works all lead us to revisit the same clues – the collective memories of the island, which were forbidden, forgotten, misunderstood, or wronged. These old works accompany the new projects in the solo exhibiton, which provide the title "A Total Story" with more metaphors and imagination.

A Total Story marks the first time artist Su Hui-Yu has attempted to explore Taiwanese history, memories of martial law, and geopolitical issues with international audiences in a more direct way. This project continues with Eugenio Viola as curator in collaboration with co-curator Juaniko Moreno. A new round of site-specific production will take place locally, and will be exhibited along with some new and old parts – including the feature film version of The Trio Hall, which was selected for the 75th Berlinale. This exhibition is a process of opening up manufacturing and opening up history, continuing Su Hui-Yu's methodology regarding moving images, film, history, ideology, and narrative construction.

The Three-Room Movie — A Total Narrative
Artist: Su Hui-Yu
Venue: Bogotá Museum of Modern Art (MAMBO)
Date: 2025 / 10 / 23 - 2026 / 02 / 15 Curators: Eugenio Viola,Juaniko Moreno