身分雞尾酒 Identity Cocktail

 


水彩21x30公分 x7
七張水彩著色畫,上有七種雞尾酒,呼應我是誰的各面向:國籍、性別、性傾向、宗教、社會階層、種族、能力。

受馬阿梅.阿拉巴.巴博阿.奧波庫《薩馬切西亞街》(2022)*啟發,該作提供心理學與流動性影響後的再現,作品回應身分的混合狀態,凸顯行為與時間的痕跡(多層次水彩)和內外因素相互作用的過程(著色畫),兩者皆與身分建構息息相關。

它未入選國立台灣美術館主辦之「全國美術展」,喚起我國的兩身分載體——台灣(國美館 National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts)/中華民國(全國美術展 National Art Exhibition R.O.C.)——及其共享經驗:被拒絕。

*2025 年底,開放式網站上曾經存在的該畫照片皆已消失,如同眾多我們還來不及看到的作品。


Watercolor on paper; 21x30(cm) x7pcs
Seven watercolor coloring drawings, showing seven cocktails corresponding to different aspects of who am I: nationality, gender, sexual orientation, religion, social class, race, ability.

Inspired by Maame Araba Baboa Opoku’s Samachesia Street (2022)*, which offers a representation influenced by psychology and fluidity, the work responds to the mixed state of identity, highlighting the traces of behavior and time (multi-layered watercolor) and the process of interaction between internal and external factors (coloring drawing), both of which are related to the developing of identity.

It was not selected for the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts’ “National Art Exhibition R.O.C.”, evoking both the dual identity carriers—Taiwan / Republic of China (R.O.C.)**—and the shared experience of our country: rejection.

*By the end of 2025, all photos of this work that once existed had disappeared from open site online, just like many other works we never got to see.
**Just to clarify, the country currently ruled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is called the People’s Republic of China (PRC).