The thematic exhibition series Re-Envisioning Society comprises ten group or solo exhibitions, presenting the work of Jao Chia En; Chang Chien-Chi; Oliver Ressler (Austria), Dario Azzellini (Germany); Superflex (Denmark); Yael Bartana (Israel); Yannick Dauby (France), Tsai Wan-Shuen and Hsu Yen-Ting; Wang Mo-Lin, Yao Li-Chun; Wang Hong-Kai; Chen Chieh-Jen; and Gulnara Kasmalieva and Muratbek Djumaliev (Kyrgyzstan).

The goal of the series is to construct a new vision for society by considering specific qualities of contemporary life, including individual and collective experiences and how these experiences are changing. More specifically, the series raises questions about our ability to uncover and examine the real relationships between individuals, individuals and places, and different places that lie hidden beneath layers of spectacle in a world of complex and contradictory modernity--that is, a social space of synchronic, interconnected and fluid modernities, and societies of spectacle situated in a world power distribution system created by global capitalism.

Facing the unceasing mutual alienation and alluviation between the development of various modern civilizations and local, traditional cultures, the identity and values of each individual and community constantly cycle through construction and loss. This raises questions of how the various driving forces within history, as well as the challenges to life inherent in these forces, are viewed. Questions are also raised regarding the life of individuals, specifically how they mediate their position within the established systems of contemporary society to fulfill needs and desires, and what friction or displacement is produced by this process. Furthermore, we reflect on what kinds of life values individuals can still pursue in societies constructed on capitalist power.

This exhibition series gives consideration to the social consciousness we identify with, revolt against or tacitly agree to, as well as the unceasing formation, framing or manipulation of human relationships. The path we have adopted with art lies in our queries: if we impart a dynamic role to society, then how should we imagine the future? Is there is still the possibility of producing different forms of social connection?
"Re-envisioning" implies uncovering the authentic relationships that have been concealed, and based on this, imagining (or creating a vision) and putting into practice a potential future that is taking shape. Heterogeneous local life experience is the basis for the exhibition. In contrast to the dominant position of many cultural and historical narratives, we start out from a concrete position of the body and life experience, and find corresponding relationships in reductive abstractions, which are potentially ways of establishing identity, views or cognition, and then use this to illuminate ingrained habits of writing and speaking, as well as how we record and interpret history. From this, we wish to produce a decisiveness based on the individual or the will of the people. (by Amy Cheng)