Beyond Wind, Salt, and Sea: A Narrative of Light and Renewal

Curatorial Statement｜ 

The  Saline Land of Tainan’s Greater Beimen has long been sculpted by sea breezes and salt mist, nurturing a unique culture of salt production and agriculture while etching a collective memory of coexistence between residents and nature. In 2025, Typhoon Danas struck the region, exposing its vulnerability but also galvanizing the power of restoration and mutual aid.

Using "Light" as a medium of transformation, this exhibition at the Soulangh Cultural Park utilizes light, shadow, and spatial art to turn scars into hope. The immersive narrative journey is structured through three chapters: Wind, Salt, and Sea.

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Lai Ying-Hsiang 《Drifting in the Salty Wind》 

Artwork Statement｜Drifting in the Salty Wind consists of eight transparent tubes filled with water, sand, and salt crystals. Through rhythmic mechanical tilting, the particles continuously settle, shift, and fall again, forming ever-reconfiguring stratified landscapes.

This cycle mirrors the everyday coexistence of the salt-impacted region with wind and sea, while also reflecting the post-typhoon process in which order is disrupted and gradually reassembled.

As the starting point of the exhibition narrative, the work reveals that change is the norm. Renewal does not mean returning to the original state; rather, it is the emergence of new structures and hope through perpetual drifting and reconfiguration.

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Liang Lai-Chang《 Contemporality》 

Artwork Statement｜Situated within the contextual field of the  Saline Land  , this work explores the long-standing interweaving of landscape and life, shaping a state of survival defined by continuous negotiation between humanity and the environment through change and restoration.

Here, structure is more than physical form; it is a vessel of time, carrying the traces left by the long-term interaction between locale and environment.

Centered on interwoven interior and exterior continuous structures, the work forms cyclical relationships through the repeated transformation of triangular units. Between contraction and expansion, it sustains a visual order that is both stable and fluid.

As viewers shift their positions, they perceive the spatial rhythms generated by the structure, becoming newly aware of their connection to the land.

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hellobastworkshop 《Etchings of Light》 

Artwork Statement｜ 

Etchings of Light uses light to respond to the landscape's experience of long-term erosion by the sea and humidity. Utilizing the transitions between transparency and opacity in smart glass (PDLC), the central light shifts between clarity and haziness, waxing and waning like the tide.

Light wanders, lingers, and dissipates within the space, leaving brief yet perceptible traces that transform invisible salt erosion into visible scales of time. The fact that light still permeates through the "erosion" symbolizes the resilience and hope that continues to emerge from the land after weathering and disaster.