浪濤之下，亦有皇都

There is Another Capital Beneath the Waves is a collaborative work between The Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM] and artists Chia-Wei Hsu, Ting-Tong Chang, and Hsien-Yu Cheng. Individually, each of the artists is an internationally operating and reputed artist who has won major art awards in Taiwan in the past, and has participated in art exhibitions around the world. In recent years, the three of them have been collaborating on a project exploring the memory of modernization and historical relations between Taiwan and Japan, inspired by aspects of industrial sugar production in Taiwan during the time of Japanese rule. There is Another Capital Beneath the Waves is a work that was realized as part two of Crystal Seeding(2021). It is set in Moji, a town in Kitakyushu where a sugar mill is still operating today. The exhibition looks from various angles at the memory of the two towns, which seem to be mirroring each otherʼs fate within the history of modernization in East Asia.