Keep Opening Doors

Sep. 5^th 2023 - Feb. 18^th 2024
 

In recent years, “transitional justice” has been advocated in Taiwan, which brings to light traumas from the authoritarian era which were overlooked; however, perhaps you may have heard of this term, but maybe you don’t fully understand what it means, and the value and impact it has on all of our lives. “Knowledge/information” then becomes just an existing outcome or an answer that people may repeatedly recite but seldom think further about the complexity that lies beyond the answer.

Keep Opening Doors seeks to create a place for dialogues, a space for coming into contact, where things that you may have heard of or know about can be internalized into empathy so that we can see “White Terror” beyond just mere information and beyond just focusing on the notion of “Never Again.” Hopefully, the struggles and the sadness and joy left behind by our two guides, Tsao Kai and Ou Yang Jian Hua, can push us to reevaluate our perceptual receptors and allow us to take in the echoes of history, then let the doors and windows of knowledge open up, a little bit more. We invite you to join our two guides and the six artists to walk through doors and embark on a collective journey inside.
 

We glisten with a language of silence

Ever so pristinely bright, ever enigmatic

I believe that all linguists

Would want to understand the cool glow that we exhale

May the light of life

Never fade and won’t be forgotten

The words we offer for others to use

Are blood rouge faces that love the light

An excerpt from "Bright Faces" by Tsao Kai
 

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