Beyond the Ridge

轉稜

This project comprises two series of works: Welcome Back to the Horizon and Shuishan: Returnings.

Taipei Fine Arts Museum

轉稜意指轉換行進方向，並非抵達山頂，而是在越過森林、攀向稜線後，轉念往向水平線的回返。

午夜時分，像是夢遊一般地闖進黑暗的森林中。約莫七年，在山林中持續攀爬，深山聚落、林業遺址，那些被遺棄消逝的歷史與記憶，被時間與自然所掩蓋。消失的人與文明，滯留於山林的中介地帶，是介於存在與失蹤之間的幽靈。

旅途從山林深處啟程，在登山縱走途中遇見了水山，曾是製樟的重要據點，隨著產業式微，從地圖消失。藝術家與聚落遺骨重新對話、挖掘出土，以骨傳導裝置作為媒介，使軀骸透過震動發聲再次被感知，讓已離去的生命短暫地回到當下，凝聚、重組不同時間維度下的聲音記憶。遺留的器物經時間催化嵌入土地，透過影像的融化，成為下一階段性地景。而後身體轉向而下，樹幹接肢而生的章魚觸手，回應與深山工作者間一場跨越時間的夢境。章魚的觸手帶著個別獨立的記憶，成為為了生存而割離創傷的隱喻，割捨的記憶被異質經驗與夢境隨之滲入、生長。最終，帶著那些幽魂與放不下的，一路下山，回到水平線。

"Beyond the Ridge" signifies a change in direction, rather than arrival at a summit. After passing through the forest and climbing toward the ridgeline, it marks a shift in thought, a turn toward the horizon and the journey back.

At midnight, one enters the dark forest as if sleepwalking. For some seven years, the artist has continued to climb through the mountains, encountering remote settlements and remnants of the forestry industry, abandoned histories and memories obscured by time and nature. The people and civilizations that have vanished linger in the mountains' liminal spaces, ghosts suspended between existence and disappearance.

The journey begins deep in the mountains. During a mountain traverse, the artist encounters Shuishan, once an important center of camphor production that disappeared from the map as the industry declined. Entering into a renewed dialogue with the settlement's skeletal remains, the artist excavates them and uses bone-conduction devices to make them resonate. Through vibration, the remains become audible and perceptible once more, briefly bringing departed lives into the present and gathering and reassembling sonic memories across different dimensions of time. Objects left behind, embedded in the earth through the slow workings of time, dissolve through moving images to become the landscape's next phase.

The body then turns and begins its descent. Octopus tentacles emerge like grafted limbs from tree trunks, responding to a dream shared across time with those who worked deep in the mountains. Each tentacle carries an independent memory, becoming a metaphor for severing trauma in order to survive. Unfamiliar experiences and dreams seep into these severed memories and take root. Finally, carrying these ghosts and all that cannot be let go, the journey descends the mountain and returns to the horizon.

離水山：再臨，2025，聲音裝置、複合媒材、壓克力顏料、擴大器、骨傳導震源、水山村遺骨，2×2×4 公尺

Shuishan: Returnings, 2025, sound installation - mixed media, acrylic, amplifier, bone conduction speaker, skeletal remains from Shuishan Village, 2×2×4 m

深山公路，2024，電子材料、滾輪、木材、燈、纜繩、馬達，1×2×3.5 公尺

Mountainous, 2024, electronic material, roller, woods, light, cable, motor, 1×2×3.5 m

接肢，2026，樹身嫁接章魚腳雕塑、混凝土、木頭，210×40×40 公分（×8）

Graft, 2026, sculpture of octopus tentacles grafted onto tree trunks, concrete, wood, 210×40×40 cm (×8)

｜聲音設計：黃詠仁 Sound Design: Huang Yung-Jen

｜旁白配音：許淨凱 Voice-Over: Xu Jing-Kai 

｜圖紙協助：周永航 Drawing Assistance: Zhou Yong-Hang 

｜贊助：騰設創意工作室 Sponsor: Teng's Design Studio

｜模型協作：磨學毅 Model Collaboration: Ama

Untitled，2025，單頻道錄像，25 分

Untitled, 2025, single-channel video, 25'

AI 影像編程：吳承儒（PB）AI Visual Programmer: Wu Cheng-Ru (PB)

It Which Remains，2024，複合混凝土、壓克力、植物、金屬配件，60×18.5×84 公分

It Which Remains, 2024, composite concrete, acrylic, plants, metal fittings, 60×18.5×84 cm

多媒體設備贊助：洪建全基金會、台灣松下電器、山葉音樂

Supporting Partner: Hong Foundation, Panasonic Taiwan, Yamaha