重返現場：《創傷是一場時空旅行》書籍具現化特展

Sydney Sie Exhibiton
2026.05.09 - 2026.05.31

MAISON ACME
No. 181-1, Sec. 3, Zhongshan N. Rd., Zhongshan Dist.,Taipei City 104, Taiwan

Tue. - Sun. 11:00 - 17:00 Monday Off

Free Entry

Exhibition Concept:
This exhibition serves as a physical manifestation of visual artist Sydney Sie’s combined photo-essay and memoir "Seconds, Space, Sydney Sie". Within this space, each room functions as a distinct chapter, translating the psychological defense mechanism of "dissociation" into a nonlinear journey through time. Set within an architectural site rich with historical depth and class connotations, the artist employs site-specific interventions to reweave fragmented shards of a broken life.

At the core of the exhibition lies a dialectic of sensory alienation and the inversion of power. Through a series of compositions featuring ready-mades and classical plaster motifs, bodily senses are re-alienated as material vessels: facial features without a mouth, shared auditory experiences, and regulated tears. These installations are more than mere embodiments of traumatic experience; they are a performative reclamation of agency within a collapsing reality.

The spatial narrative oscillates between memories of violence and gentle reconstruction. From the "index of relationships" lining the corridor—portraits of friends who have traversed twenty years of the artist's life—to the red balloons scattered across the bathroom floor symbolizing the fragile will to exist, and a "knocking" device that transfigures violent impact into a polite salutation, the exhibition stages a shift in power from passive survival to active intervention. Here, the artist is not merely a retrospective observer but a "temporal climber," anchoring herself through images and objects amidst the displacement of class and memory.

By designating the exhibition’s conclusion as the "Starting Point," this journey transcends a mere eulogy for the past; it becomes an ontological inquiry. Viewers are invited to step into this manifested fold in space-time, to join the artist in the act of "Returning to the Scene," and to search for the lifeline that allows for a landing in the present—completing the final transition from private grief to public witness.