Image: Kuo I-Chen, 33° N, 35.3° E, from the Survivor series 2007, digital image, image © the artist

Defined as 'a partial or imperfect shadow', Penumbra plays on the 2008 Festival theme of 'light': the exhibition has been specially commissioned for the Festival by the Samstag Museum.

Penumbra features a selection of new media, installation and site-specific work by some of Taiwan's rising young stars including Huang Po-Chih, Kuo I-Chen, Tseng Yu-Chin, Wang Ya-Hui and Wu Diing-Wuu (Walis Labai) whose works will be shown in Australia for the first time.

A Samstag Museum exhibition in association with the 2008 Adelaide Festival of Arts with assistance from the Australia-China Council and I-Mei Foods, Taiwan

Current exhibition

Past exhibitions

Penumbra
29 February – 4 April 2008
Galleries 1-3

Penumbra: Contemporary Art from Taiwan explores the shifting spaces between past and present, in a country that continues to undergo dynamic economic and socio-political change. This exhibition reflects upon notions of memory, time and place as these artists endeavour to find a sense of meaning and belonging.

Curator: Sophie McIntyre

Media release (PDF file, 234kb)