2025 Art Taipei

Oct 23 - Oct 27, 2025

Taipei World Trade Center Exhibition Hall 1

Soka Art is honored to participate in the 2025 art extravaganza, ART TAIPEI Taipei International Art Fair. From October 23 to 27 at Booth B05 in Hall 1 of the Taipei World Trade Center, we will present a narrative titled “Empathy · Echo,” guiding viewers to experience how art becomes a bridge between emotions and thoughts through contemplation and dialogue. This exhibition features works by 13 artists from Taiwan, China, Japan, South Korea, and the UK, including: Yu Peng, Daisuke Teshima, Wang Yiya, Wu Ruohsin, Li XX, Li Jie, Lin Baoling, Will Harman, Hsi Shihpin, Yan Zhancheng, Zhan Ji’ang, Yan Yineng, and Kim Sunwoo. Through figures, animals, natural landscapes, and cultural symbols, they depict the interwoven existence of the individual and the external world, reflecting the multifaceted dimensions of memory, emotion, society, and the spiritual realm.


"Resonance" refers to the emotional connection viewers experience when observing artworks, extending beyond the pieces themselves to the social, natural, and spiritual dimensions they touch. "Echo" represents a delayed, diffused response. This exhibition, titled "Resonance · Echo," symbolizes the continuously generating interactive relationship between artists and viewers. Creation begins with the artist's individual perception of the world, while the viewer's empathy echoes back, reflecting their own experiences and understanding.

 

In this exhibition featuring contemporary artists from multiple countries, we attempt to revisit a seemingly microscopic yet profoundly significant question: "The interwoven state of existence between humans and all things in the world." Participating artists from Taiwan, China, Japan, Korea, and the United Kingdom include Yu Peng, Daisuke Teshima, Wang Yiya, Wu Ruohsin, Li XX, Li Jie, Lin Baoling, Will Harman, Hsi Shihpin, Yan Zhancheng, Zhan Ji’ang, Yan Yineng, and Kim Sunwoo (listed by stroke order of surnames). Through human figures, animals, natural landscapes, or cultural symbols, each artist depicts forms of dialogue between the individual and the external world, revealing memory, emotion, society, and spirituality.


  • Spiritual      Moments of Self-Dialogue:

Daisuke Teshima, Li XX, Wu Ruohsin, Hsi Shihpin, Zhan Ji’ang

 

This exhibition presents the interactive transmission relationship that ripples from within to without through the artists' creations. We begin with "Spiritual Moments of Self-Dialogue" as our core. Artist #Daisuke Teshima integrates traditional Japanese woodcarving craftsmanship with the modern human soul. Through handcrafted engravings and gentle layering of colors, he creates playful yet thought-provoking human forms, conveying a humorous, subtle, and therapeutic style. Artist #Wu Ruohsin 'screations reflect personal childhood memories and experiences. Her works often feature black backgrounds, resembling continuous images on film negatives, peering into moments from memory that bring subtle sensations to the artist. Artist # Li XX's works are known for their simple abstraction, vibrant colors, and emotional representation. The facial expressions of her figures are particularly captivating, demonstrating results of repeated observation and delicate empathy, creating deep emotional resonance. Artist #Hsi Shihpin specializes in three-dimensional stainless steel sculptures. With dual backgrounds in architecture and design, his works combine rational structural spaces with sensory life experiences and mythological stories, interweaving classical mythology and science fiction parables like dreams. Artist #Zhan Ji’ang's creations blend Asian religious colored sculptures and mural styles, with Western art influences carrying humanistic spirits. His works often draw from daily life, exploring self-emotion and spirituality, expressing the loneliness and strength of the post-1990s generation amidst pressure and emotions, attempting to find the intersection between humanity and divinity through delicate brushstrokes.

 

  • Natural      Resonance and Connection:

Yu Peng, Lin Baoling, Yan Yineng, Kim Sunwoo

 

Moving beyond self-exploration, like ripples moving across water, we open "Natural Resonance and Connection." Artist #Yu Peng is an important figure in Taiwan's contemporary art scene. His creations are poetic and dramatic, often displaying a unique artistic language in the intersection between tradition and modernity, reality and illusion. He explores the fusion of history, dreams, and reality through the interweaving of nature and human culture, metaphorically depicting contemporary inner worlds while examining the relationship between nature and literati spirit, real-world contradictions, and the pursuit of humanity. Artist #Lin Baoling's creations capture authentic scenes from life, from bustling urban nightscapes to cold, desolate snow scenes. Each piece immerses viewers, inspiring awe through special creative techniques that allow paint to flow freely, forming dreamlike diffusion effects that perfectly blend Western abstract art with the spirit of Eastern ink painting, presenting magnificent scenes with fluidity and ethereal quality. Artist #Yan Yineng excels at drawing creative inspiration from natural elements such as oceans, flames, and rocks. Through thick layers of paint application and smearing, he presents the endless cycle of the natural world, showcasing the power of destruction and rebirth, and suggesting the passage of time. Artist #Kim Sunwoo has long used the dodo bird as the protagonist in her creations, combining personal experiences for visual storytelling. The dodo bird (Raphus cucullatus), with its simple appearance and brief existence, becomes a symbol through which she explores the situation of individuals in unknown environments within modern society. In landscapes where jungles and cities intersect, the dodo bird, like modern humans, is both participant and observer, reflecting the contradictions between dreams, freedom, and survival.

 

  • Reflections      on Social Order and Individual Will:

Wang Yiya, Will Harman, Li Jie, Yan Zhancheng

 

Finally, as the ripples continue to expand outward, we open "Reflections on Social Order and Individual Will." Artist #Wang Yiya possesses strong feminine and life consciousness. Her creations explore the rise and fall of power and life by contrasting the empty human figures with the elaborate floral crowns of Song Dynasty empresses. She extensively incorporates Eastern classical books such as "The Classic of Mountains and Seas," "The Book of Songs," and "Dream of the Red Chamber," finding inspiration in everything that moves her in life and using art to convey emotions while reinterpreting these stories. Artist # Will Harman excels at depicting collective scenes. His creations often use rich, bold lines and vivid colors to describe scenes, building layers on the canvas through short, rapid brushwork to create a sense of movement. His themes are closely connected to modern life, making viewers feel as if they are present in the scene, conveying "a sense of sound and presence in the painting." Artist #Li Jie deeply explores relationships between people and group dynamics through clever combinations of color blocks and brushstrokes. His works can be experienced differently depending on viewing distance; up close, one can see the artist's sensitivity to color and the unique power formed by layered brushstrokes, creating dynamic textures and impact. From a distance, one can observe the sense of distance and connection between people contained in the work, as if standing in a crowded square witnessing various groups of people intermingling, subtly narrating the complexity and beauty of interpersonal relationships in everyday life. Artist # Yan Zhancheng's creations are rooted in the depiction of the subconscious, including memories of his hometown, love for literature, and intuition for color. His past experiences silently integrate into his paintings, forming his unique pictorial language.

 

Through different materials and styles, these artists repeatedly reflect on the boundaries or connections between individuals and all things. Creation might be the most sensitive responsive state on that blurred boundary. Through "Resonance" and "Echo," artists find opportunities to reposition their relationships with the world.