The development of cities brings fast-paced lives, tense lifestyles, and competitive atmosphere. Life has become “uninteresting” because people have become too “occupied.” To relieve pressure, many city dwellers choose to “go on a trip” to rediscover excitements or joy. The first step to “go” is to think of ways to bypass restrictions of reality. For example, taking leave of absence from your job or daydreaming and escaping into imagination. The ensuing result “trip” is to rediscover the so-called fun, including the fun of working, living, or simply enjoying the sweetness of doing nothing.

Many travel books and essays are well received by the public, but when readers visit actual places they often complain that those publications overstate the beauty of sceneries. In fact, the sceneries are neutral. They carry and reflect invisible “human” feelings created by subjective description and verbal delivery. Unfortunately, the act of “going on a trip” no longer serves the purpose of “escaping reality to search for a lively future.” Nowadays it has become routine activities of picture taking and social media uploading. The exhibition Going on a Trip incorporates the creativity of popular selfie photographs to present four contrasting works of video and action art. The show instills various possibilities of imagination and fun into real life. 

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Delphine Pouillé
The first one A jaco?  
courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei