NEW TAIPEI（THE TERRITORY MAP）：A DISTANCE OF TEN YEARS 新 台 北（佔 領 圖 ）：十 年 的 距 離
New Taipei - A Distance of Ten Years
新台北（佔領圖）：十年的距離
2026
Acrylic on canvas
10 pieces
112 x 112 cm each
Shiau-Peng Chen examines her evolving relationship with Taiwan’s major public art institutions established since 2016 through a group of ten paintings. Geometrically rendered institutional logos and icons suggest the artist’s attempt to redefine these institutional infrastructures on her own terms. Institutions that have previously exhibited or collected his works are rendered in the original colors of their logos, while those that have neither exhibited nor collected her work are represented by the ground color of the canvas—suggesting that the artist has yet to “occupy” them. The ten works are arranged chronologically according to the founding dates of the respective institutions.
This is an ongoing and expandable artistic project: should new art spaces be established in the future, the series will continue to expand accordingly. As an evolving process, the project’s state of “becoming” raises a question: ten years from now, what will these institutions look like, and what kind of “colors” will ultimately emerge?
New Taipei (The Territory Map): A Distance of Ten Years extends the themes explored in the artist’s Taipei Series (2016), examining issues including the relationship between the artist and institutions, the artist’s desires, and the coordinates of the artist’s position. At the same time, the series reveals the subtle politics embedded within abstraction—or within the act of abstraction itself.
陳曉朋以一組十件畫作，處理自己與臺灣自2016年以來成立的主要公立藝術機構之間動態的關係。經過幾何化處理的館所標誌與圖示，暗示藝術家以自身的方式重新界定這些藝術基礎設施。曾展出或典藏其作品的機構，以標誌原本的色彩繪製；未曾展出或典藏者，則以畫布底色呈現——暗示藝術家尚未將其佔領。這十件作品依各機構的成立時間順序排列。
這是一組持續進行、可不斷擴充的創作計畫——若未來有新的藝術空間成立，作品也將隨之延伸。作為一種進行中的過程，該計劃的「正成為」狀態提出了一個問題：十年之後，這些機構將會呈現何種樣貌，最終又會顯現出什麼樣的「色彩」？
《新台北（佔領圖）：十年的距離》延續藝術家2016年「台北系列」的創作主題，探討藝術家與機構之間的關係、藝術家的欲望，以及藝術家所處的座標等議題，同時展現出潛藏於抽象畫（或抽象化行動）之中的微妙政治性。
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