WORKING HARD
SHE & BOY
SHE
She wen-ying
BOY
Based
Taiwan and Berlin
Artist Statement
Working Hard is more than a name of the art collective but a method of aesthetic practice in order to reconstruct an imaginative space via archival approaches. Abstracts every fragment and reflection of daily life and surrounding, we manipulate sounds, visions, smells and mediums, to examine the relations and extensions among these elements.
We usually applied the form of sculpture to anchor the issues of museum and archive in our previous creations. In recent works, we explore the connections between audio memories and visual imagination, recompose the audio script and transform the city’s memories into an audio track. The soundscape provides an atlas for visual imagination. The audio description also helps visitors to bring back all the lost and forgotten scenes and memories.
Our creations evolve along with our experience of working and living in different cities. From an individual angle, we observe and experience the collective life of different cultures and societies. Within the combination of sound and vision, our works express the transition and quarantine of a culture that survives at the slit of the city. We also build up an imaginative space made by our documentation and sensibility of the real world, and to make the historical narrative can be interpreted with various and complex angles and approaches.
CV
Solo Exhibition
Group Exhibition
Awards
Artist-in-Residency
2022 ‘Cómo están de ausentes las cosas queridas [How Dear Things are Absent] ’, Vernàcular Institute, México City, Mexico
2022 ‘A Better Tomorrow’, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2021 ‘Rolling on’, Tsung-Yeh Arts and Cultural Center, Tainan, Taiwan
2021 ‘A Portal to…’ – Seeing Taiwan Cultural Association in the Chiayi Street Art Project, Chiayi Art Museum, Chiayi, Taiwan
2021 ‘Lose sight of the shore’, Cultural Affairs Bureau of Kinmen County, Taiwan
2021 ‘Newww.Land.com’, Inart Space, Tainan, Taiwan
2019 ‘There is no Chinatown’, Taipei Artist Villiage, Taipei, Taiwan
2019 ‘There is no______’, Pier‐2 Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2018 ‘There is no Chinatown, NZ’, Snowwhait Gallery, Unitec, Auckiand, New Zealand
2016 ‘Certified Copy ( Nanhai Gallery)’, Nanhai Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2016 ‘Not Open to the Public’, Juming Museum, New Taipei City, Taiwan
2016 ‘Certified Copy (OCAC)’, Open Contemporary Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2022 ‘Mattauw Triennial’, Tsung-Yeh Arts and Cultural Center, Tainan, Taiwan
2021 ‘Tomorrow, Towarding’, ’The World is yet to Come’, MoCA Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
2021 ‘Kaohsiung Award’, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
2020 ‘Authentic World’ – Greater Taipei Biennial of Contemporary Art, Yo-Chang Art Museum, NTUA, New Taipei City, Taiwan
2020 ‘To Lift a Curfew’ Group Exhibition, Matsu New Village Cultural and Creative Park, Zhongli, Taiwan
2019 ‘City Flip-Flop’, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-Lab), Taipei, Taiwan
2018 ‘Indicate Injustice: Proposals for Visual Identity and Memorial Object of Monuments of Injustice’, National Human Rights Museum, Taipei
2018 ‘Future Historical Site’, National Museum of Prehistory, Peinan Cultural Park, Taitung City, Taiwan
2017 FORMOSA Sculpture Biennial ‘M Space’, Pier-2 art center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2017 ‘Flow/Flux’, Sianguang 2nd Village, Taoyuan, Taiwan
2016 Kaohsiung International Steel & Iron Art Festival ‘STEEL PLAY’, Pier‐2 Art
Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2016 ‘Lexicon’ SLY Art Space/ Wasteland Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan
2015 Collaboration with Artist Venzha Christ ‘CK07N030 2009 01 07.4298 1.220470 0.998894 136.6077 338.2806 178.375820150627 6.5 4.0 : C/2007 N3’ Residency project, organized by Open Contemporary Art Centre and Dovetail X., Taipei, Taiwan
2022 ‘The 21th Taishin Arts Award’, Taiwan, Nomination
2021 ‘Kaohsiung Award’, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, Merit Award
2021 ‘Next Art Tainan 2021’, Taiwan, Recipient of an Award
2019 ‘The 18th Taishin Arts Award’, Taiwan, Nomination
2018 ‘Indicate Injustice: Proposals for Visual Identity and Memorial Object of Monuments of Injustice’, National Human Rights Museum, Taiwan, Berlin Award
2017 ‘The 15th Taoyuan Contemporary Art Award’, Taiwan, Judges' Award
2023 ‘Pedvāle Open Air Art Museum’, Latvija
2022 ‘Vernàcular Institute’, México City, Mexico
2022 ‘Künstlerhaus Bethanien’, Berlin, Germany
2021 ‘Tsung-Yeh Arts and Cultural Center’, Tainan, Taiwan
2021 ‘Cultural Affairs Bureau of Kinmen County’, Kinmen, Taiwan
2019 ‘National Museum of Taiwan History’, Tainan, Taiwan
2019 ‘PAIR, Pier‐2 Art Center’, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2018 ‘National Museum of Prehistory’, Peinan Cultural Park, Taitung City, Taiwan
2018 ‘Unitec Institute of Technologies’, Funded by TAV, Auckland, New Zealand
2017 Project ‘CO- Temporary #2：Itu Apa Island’, Funded by the Ministry of Culture, OCAC X LIFEPATCH, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2017 ‘International OPEN&FUN Art Village’, Shanghai, China
2016 ‘Kaohsiung International Steel & Iron Art Festival’, Pier‐2 Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2014 ‘International Nature Art Symposium, 6th, Wolf-stone Cave Art Camp Association’, Noszvaj, Hungary
WORKING HARD is the brainchild of creative duo KUO PO-YU and SHE WEN-YING (b.1989) since 2015, two artists who gained their MFA sculpture degrees from the National Taiwan University of Arts in 2016.
Their works have been exhibited in Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Kaohsiung Museum of Arts among others. They also participated in residency projects in Taiwan, Mexico, Germany, New Zealand and Indonesia.
