The three keywords of Dear Taiwan, Outdoor Exhibition are #dialogue, #collaboration, and #the everyday.
In 2025, Elanor co-curated the exhibition as part of the inaugural Taiwan International Photography Festival (TIPF). Three artists, Chien-Yu Liu, Xhin Toh, and Lin Wei-Lun collaborated with the Taiwan Youth Association for Transitional Justice and Kiōng-Seng, g0v, and IORG to reflect these communities’ and organisations’ practices.
Artists developed their works through close dialogue with curators and organisations. This process mirrors democratic practice: instead of fixed answers, the works grew from listening, reflection, and understanding each organisation’s concerns, which the artists expressed in their own visual language.
Liu turns to food as a carrier of intergenerational memory of the February 28 Incident, a shared trauma of the Taiwanese people, using darkroom experimentation to evoke the erosion of time and emotion. Toh frames empty landscapes marked by fleeting facial-recognition grids, pointing to civic technology, collective authorship, and the invisible presence of participants. Lin transforms data on information warfare into an “Information Environment Calendar,” visualizing how gray-zone conflicts shape political time and public perception.
Framed as a letter to Taiwan, the exhibition opens a platform for exchange between artists, civic groups, and audiences, inviting viewers to think about how democracy is practised and protected in everyday gestures and shared memory.
This work was also selected as one of the 2025 Taiwan Design BEST100 by Shopping Design, placing it among the top 15 events and exhibition initiatives in Taiwan this year.
Exhibition archive by Lightbox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgqtwV5JR98
Official Website: https://tipf.tw/en/tipf/dear-taiwan
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