Double Square 双方藝廊

Liam MORGAN
Born in Canada in 1982. He is a visual artist and film-maker whose practice involves interference and disruption and his work is often interventionist in nature. Much of his work uses light as a medium. He came to his practice through an unusual path, passing political science, anthropology and development studies, bringing him to Chiang Mai University (Thailand) in 2002 and then to documentary film-making through Images Asia, an activist documentary-production group where he worked for a number of years. He has been based in Bangkok, Thailand since 2009. His work has been shown in Asia, Europe, Australia and North America and is included in the permanent collection of the Maiiam Contemporary Art Museum as well as various private collections. He is a co-founder of the Bangkok Biennial.

WU Chi-Tsung
Born in 1981 in Taipei. Wu received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Taipei National University of the Arts in 2004. He currently lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan and Berlin, Germany.
His work, in which he devotes great attention to the methods used in producing and interpreting images, spans across different media, including photography, video, installation art, painting and set design. He combines traditions and contemporary art forms from the East and the West. Daily objects and phenomena are great inspiration for his work, what he transforms into poetic imagery. He received the top prize of the Taipei Arts Award (2003), short-listed for the “Artes Mundi” (2006), received “WRO Media Art Biannual” (2013) – Award of Critics and Editors of Art Magazines”, and short-listed for the “Prudential Eye Awards” (2015).

YU Shih-Fu
Born in Miaoli, Taiwan in 1987, and Yu currently lives in Taipei. His works mostly use electronics, metals and machinery as media, mechanics for the narrative core, creating a dialogue with people using “Inorganic language”, describing their profound life experience, memories and feelings.
He received 2012 Taipei Digital Art Award and SANCF Award. He also participated in exhibitions such as National Art Exhibition, Young Art Taipei, Digital Art Festival, FORMOSA Sculpture Biennial and Art & Creative Expo Taiwan. He held his first solo exhibition Tiny Torture in 2016. In the same year, he was selected the residence artist in Kyoto University of Art and Design.

SHYU Ruey-Shiann
Born in 1966 in Taipei, Taiwan. Currently lives and works in Taipei and New York. Shyu launched the mechanical power series in 1997 and since then it has been the main venue for his artistic expression. He sees it as a challenge to combine the usage of precision technology with plastic aesthetics. Through various rhythms in the work based on precise mechanical theories, he tries to tell stories from his cultural background with a poetic approach. He views the absolute precision of mechanical movements as an abstract language. This abstract language may convey a living philosophy which even transcends the visual image of the work. He uses mechanical elements both as a creative media and as a deeper exploration of the meaning of life. Artistic creation makes it possible for machines to be infused with living energy through the rhythm created from the combination of precise components and repetitive mechanical motions.
For him, the creation of a work is more than just an extension of his personal feelings for life; it is also a vivid representation of the vitality of the individual elements that make up the work.

CHEN Shu-Chiang
Born in Hsinchu, Taiwan in 1969. Chen Shu-Chiang is interested in sculpture, painting, documentary photography and interior design. He has been engaged in documentary production and picture book publishing. Chen held his first solo exhibition in 2008, marking the start of his art career.
He prefers to create his works with natural materials such as sea-washed bones, rocks, rusty iron…, and, in particular, plants. He thinks that every natural object is a symbolic form of nature’s chaos, so when its life stops moving on, the chaos that drives and provides life seems to leave a tiny piece of wreckage or dust behind like a quick shot photo of memory of a time fragment. Such things have always been calling and appealing to him. He submits the calling, abides by the existing forms and texture, and expresses his own response moderately— just like he agrees with the calling genuinely. His works transform and present the various possibilities of materials in form, aesthetics and spirit, which enhance the visual tension of his works.

HSIAO Sheng-Chien
Born in Tainan, Taiwan in 1968. In 2003, He received Yageo Tech-Art Award and attended the artist residency at Location 1 gallery in New York City for 6 months. During university, He had aimed at the form of water and ink painting which focused on Buddhist, east philosophy and concerned about the bottom heart of human being. He has changed the presentation form with technological art after studying Tainan National University in 1999. He is good at using electric sensor, computer program and motor mechanism which have designed and pre-recorded to tie in careful inter-logical for creating an atmosphere where audiences can interact with the image or machine of works. Attempting through the process of interacting, conducting and changing in the audiences’ mentality, he would like to confer and satirize the strange relationship in civilized society nowadays, or express his ideas about some ridiculous and hypocritical phenomenon. Though he always use complicated program design, electric sensor and image technique, he prefer using salvaged machine or electric component as material to create his work. Therefore, his work presents a depraved and ruined industry civilization. He doesn’t only want to hide the distance sedulously in hi-technology which is fashion, cold and simple in high quality trend, but also try to pursue the esthetic low-technology which is handy, structural and rough.

Sunil GAWDE
Born in Mumbai, India in 1960, he graduated from Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting), Sir J.J. School of Art in Mumbai, India in 1980. Sunil Gawde is an Indian contemporary artist who has attracted considerable attention of the international art community. He has long been focusing on the difference between reality and perception, as well as their connection and extension. He tends to express his inner self through sculptures, paintings, and kinetic installations that highlight the absurd, paradoxical, and contradictory nature of life with different sets of visually stimulating dualism such as, among other things, soft vs. hard, round vs. sharp, presence vs. absence, and sense vs. sensibility. Employing diverse materials and art forms though, the artist follows his consistent creative style that exudes an aura of clean and clear aesthetics. The materials for his artworks are primarily quotidian ready-mades such as light bulbs, windshield wipers, or magnifiers. Gawde tries to explore the most distinct possibilities of these ready-mades by analyzing their physical quality and size. He is an artist with poetic vision and skilled in building metaphorical tension when transforming the nature of objects. His artistic vocabulary transcends the confines of geographic regions and cultures. It not only gets in line with the local context, but also fits in with the international trends. His technique of expression perfectly blends sense with sensibility, which not only brings a touch of humor and charm but also encourages philosophical reflection.