Cultural

The Island of Seascapes

Cultural Ecosystem of Seas ＆Mountains

2025. 08. 02(SAT) - 2025. 08. 11(MON)
Songshan Cultural and Creative Park Warehouse No. 4

Exhibition introduction

The Island of Seascapes takes Water Societies as its curatorial core, exploring the multilayered relationship between people, water, and the environment through the island’s geography and cultural contexts.

The centerpiece is a large woven installation suspended in midair—composed of agricultural scaffolding, fishing ropes, and sea salt. It symbolizes the life-forms that emerge from coexistence with water, shaping a sensory, ever-shifting cultural landscape. Beneath it, a reflective space unfolds, interwoven with light and shadow, showcasing films, documentaries, photography, and books to compose a narrative-rich and immersive water society.

The exhibition presents 25 film and video works spanning different eras, features contributions from six visual artists and photographers, and offers nearly 40 books. These explore river and ocean ecologies, survival experiences, belief systems, cultural memory, and urban transformation. Through the layering of time, space, and perspective, viewers enter a dialectical and sensory mode of reading, and reflect on the flow and transformative nature of cultural memory and social structures.

With its open curatorial structure, The Island of Seascapes invites audiences to freely connect with the materials, shaping their own personal pathways of understanding.

This is not merely an exhibition about water—but a space for cultural dialogue and imagining the future.

Curatorial Team

Atelier Or
Atelier Or

Established in 2011, Atelier Or works across architecture, spatial installations, and exhibition design. Key completed or ongoing projects include: Restoration and reuse of the National Museum of History, Sparkling Market at Hsinchu Fishing Harbor, Renovation of the Minsheng College building cluster at Shih Chien University Taipei campus, Dormitories at Shih Chien University Kaohsiung campus, Interior restoration and onsite heritage displays at the Railway Department Park of the National Taiwan Museum, Hsinchu’s Happiness Plaza and surrounding public space, Exhibition design for the Yilan Museum of Art, Joint Landing Capsule exhibition at the former Air Force Headquarters in 2015, The Memory of 80’s, the outdoor land art installation at Taitung Art Museum in 2014.

Curators

Lin,Sheng-Feng
Lin,Sheng-Feng

Lin Sheng-Feng and his studio, Atelier Or, gained wide recognition in 2014 with the outdoor installation The Memory of 80’s exhibited at Taitung Art Museum. In 2018, his design for Hsinchu’s Happiness Plaza won the “Taiwan Landscape Award – Excellence Prize,” followed by the 2022 Good Design Award in Japan for the “Sparkling Market” at Hsinchu Fishing Harbor. Lin’s work is characterized by material-based spatial constructions that integrate light and shadow to fully liberate bodily experience. His designs often evoke a poetic “archetypal” atmosphere, with a seamless interplay between diverse materials.

Recent major projects by Atelier Or include: the restoration and adaptive reuse of the National Museum of History, the renovation of the Taipei campus buildings at Shih Chien University, the reuse of the Railway Department Park of the National Taiwan Museum, exhibition design for the Taiwan Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, and the Tectonic Exhibitions in 2022 and 2024.

Design Team

Atelier Or
Atelier Or

Established in 2011, Atelier Or works across architecture, spatial installations, and exhibition design. Key completed or ongoing projects include: Restoration and reuse of the National Museum of History, Sparkling Market at Hsinchu Fishing Harbor, Renovation of the Minsheng College building cluster at Shih Chien University Taipei campus, Dormitories at Shih Chien University Kaohsiung campus, Interior restoration and onsite heritage displays at the Railway Department Park of the National Taiwan Museum, Hsinchu’s Happiness Plaza and surrounding public space, Exhibition design for the Yilan Museum of Art, Joint Landing Capsule exhibition at the former Air Force Headquarters in 2015, The Memory of 80’s, the outdoor land art installation at Taitung Art Museum in 2014.