My work is often inspired by things and spaces that are easily overlooked in life, such as living room corners, discarded objects or undefined open spaces. I am deeply interested in the seemingly balanced but unstable, harmonious yet contradictory relationship between these things and the spaces they occupy.
I often observe and collect these spaces through photography, and try to practise visual perception in order to re-experience life that has been compressed into 'surfaces'. Through encounters and transformations of images, installations and objects in various spaces, I intend to explore the ability of matter to develop and conceal messages in different spatial and temporal narratives, and to contemplate on the existence of things and how they reflect individual states and collective phenomena.
The artworks in this exhibition have used many of the installation images from my previous physical exhibitions. Whilst I re-experience the works in these images, allowing them to meet in different narratives of time and space, I am also experimenting on how the works and space are in a reconstructed system, echoing, alienating, obscuring and abstracting each other. At the same time, I am constantly thinking as to how installation works can be documented and preserved, and how an artist can open up a dialogue with his/her creation experience through their work.
Sara Wu is an artist based in Taipei and London. She studied sculpture at Royal College of Art, London (2018-2020) and journalism at National Chengchi University, Taipei (2013-2017). Through video and sculpture, Wu often suspends easily overlooked corners and objects in life and transforms them into a medium for re-experiencing what already exists in the real world. Her works have been exhibited at Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Centre, Budapest (2019), Grosvenor Gallery, Manchester (2019), Royal Society of Sculptors, London (2021), National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung (2019), and Soka Art, Tainan (2021) among others. In recent years, she has collaborated with Taiwanese artist Sean Tseng in the planning and implementation of the artist-led online platform ‘ss space space’.