Exhibitions based on museum collections rarely go beyond presenting works in a way that challenges the original intentions of the collection, and work is always framed within conventional themes selected by the museum. These exhibitions usually present chronological progressions or perhaps works are grouped by type or other criteria. The curatorial strategy used for Intersecting Vectors follows neither of these traditional presentation methods, but rather, work is selected from disparate groupings, such as art form or historical contexts, and exhibited together. The hope is to create conditions that elicit more imaginative views of the museum collection by visitors, such that it is seen in an entirely new light, and also to open the museum to more experimental presentation of its collection. For this exhibition cycle, the young curators Ya-Chun Chin, Yunglin Wang and Ming-Jiun Tsai were invited to individually propose their own interpretations, and re-envision the museum collection.

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The Medium is the Model, 1997
c-print, 50.7x60.7cm
© Zhang Guo-Gu
Courtesy of Taipei Fine Art Museum