The works in the joint exhibition include:

SAIESEO: “Between Two Koreas and Japan” by Korean-Japanese artist KIM Insook. The work filmed several Korean “Japan-inhabitants” with documentary techniques. The artist even turns the camera shot to herself, in an attempt to explore her own situation. The fiber artist WU Pei -shan wrapped up different objects with delicate fiber weave. She created a number of subtle visual effects through the material itself. Typokaki, the typography design team from Malaysia, created an art book called “Women’s Words”. The book is actually a mini-sized dictionary, composed of many different ” self-coined words” with the radical of “woman”. Every new coined word resembles a certain woman-related situation. The dictionary-like layout of the book lists the explanations of the words in Chinese, English and Malay.

“All the Way to Mengkerang”, a video work by Malaysian artist AU Sow-Yee, represents a nonexistent South Pacific island with a documentary-like technique to portray her imaginative Utopia where different races coexist. In the work “Buns (1985-1998)”, LEE Jo-Mei carved her two buns preserved from her childhood out of marble to express a sense of farewell and remembrance. Tayeba Begum Lipi, an artist from Bangladesh, plays both the bride and the groom and “weds” herself in a traditional wedding ceremony in her work “I Wed Myself”. The work refers to personal gender awareness while condemning the unfair patriarchy structure.

“I Don’t Belong” looks into the identification of races, genders and generations at a certain level. We intend to develop a set of clarified feminine writing logic through the works of these six artists and art groups. The ways of writing illustrate six different life stories, family memories and self-reflections after confronting some particular situations of races and genders.