With the creation seem to be a fable of symbolism and metaphor, Phase Transition of the Story is a theme exhibition by Taiwanese artist Lu Chih-Yun (Winner of Yoshitomo Nara Prize in GEISAI TAIWAN2009) and Japanese artist Daisuke Nagaoka (Winner of Young Art Award 2009) that transforms the media in use into a work exhibiting visual effects totally different from essence thereof. Fragments of memories and fictitious plots interlace and affect with one another producing surreal illusions in the gallery space.

Inspired by Lu Chih-Yun’s daily lives and her inner world, each piece of the sculpture works by the artist tells a short story. Pulled out from their original functions, antique furniture and home appliances are principals of her series of works in the exhibition with handmade characteristic-fit installations added into each. Under the seemingly sweet yet illusionary visual effects, scenes of home life memories interlacing with subconscious imaginary world are presented.

In Daisuke Nagaoka’s animations and drawings captured the idea of “evidence of living.” It is on paper in the repeated circling and erasing motion of his pen and eraser that the formative layers of his work and actions begin to emerge and become a moving image, which is like the mechanism in metaphor. The expression of this metaphor may at times emerge as the form of a living thing, or a gleaming vista, stretching out into an endless expanse like a road movie. In the evidence of accumulated and repeated actions it is possible to project a form for our spiritual activities.