"1+1: A Cross-Strait-Four-Region Artistic Exchange Project" sets the concept of exchange as its core theme. The 16 artists from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau are invited to participate in this project. They were paired up into groups of two, each from a different region. Members of each pair then engaged in their own thematic exchange activities and presented the process and results of their exchange in the form of artworks.

The curatorial team, as a single entity, provides an interpretation of the origins and aims of the "1+1" model and concept. The curators, with discussion among themselves, also engage separately with the artists to explain their critical viewpoints on the notion of exchange in a manner that responds to the artworks. The result is a variety of intertextual works. Now, "1+1" is no longer a mere mathematical operation; it may equal more than 2.

In a sense, exchange implies compromise, alienation and even discarding the self to a certain extent. There can be several outcomes to cooperation: (i) smooth collaboration that produces an artwork of harmony and substantiality; (ii) incompatible work relationship that gives rise to an artwork of conflicting styles; (iii) a situation somewhere in the middle, where cooperation is forced and awkward, resulting in a confusing or disoriented piece of work. However, what really matters is that the various images and documents created in the process embody the essence of these various states. It is through these creations born out of the intention or the inability to collaborate and their corresponding forms of expression that the differences between genders, identities, roles and regions, and people's efforts in adjusting themselves for communication purposes can rise to the fore.

/ Abstrcted from Feng Boyi and Wang Xiaosong's essay