Dwelling (2015)

A pioneer of Taiwanese video art who has been producing media works since 1984, Yuan Goang-ming imbues his pieces with metaphors and symbols showing the minds and perceptions of contemporary humans. Dwelling shows an ordinary living room that has been built in the water. A sudden, massive explosion completely disassembles it, only for it to immediately return to its original form. The process that unfolds between the everyday living room with its ordinary furnishings and the incident that suddenly turns all of that on its head makes us link both the way the pandemic has destroyed our daily lives, as well as the calm that will eventually return.