Lying Moon 臥月
Site-specific Installation, 2024
Wu Chi-Tsung: Trail to the Moon
Opening reception: 19 December, 7:30 pm
Dates: Dec 19, 2024 – Mar 29, 2025
Venue: Galerie du Monde, 390 Ruiguang Road, Neihu, Taipei
We are delighted to announce “Wu Chi-Tsung: Trail to the Moon,” the inaugural exhibition at gdm’s (Galerie du Monde’s) new Taipei space. This marks Wu’s fourth solo presentation with the gallery and features the site-specific installation Lying Moon, new Cyano-Collages, and his latest experimental series “Wrinkled Texture – Fading Origin.”
Centerpiece of this inaugural exhibition, Wu Chi-Tsung’s Lying Moon (2024) unfolds as a monumental 6-meter immersive photographic installation, conceived specifically for this inaugural exhibition. The work’s title operates on multiple semantic registers: in its most immediate sense, it depicts a moon prostrating across the ground, inviting viewers to physically recline upon its surface. Yet “lying” here also gestures toward the work’s conceptual artifice—this is a moon that deceives, a constructed celestial body assembled from the collective imaginary. The lunar topography, traditionally read as familiar craters and seas, is here meticulously crafted from sand, photographed, manipulated, and collaged into a new cosmological fiction. This dual reading of “lying”—as both physical positioning and poetic deception—transforms into a metaphor for how perception unfolds along lines of becoming: emergent, indeterminate, contingent, historical, and deeply narrative in its unfolding. The Lying Moon reveals both technical and spiritual continuity with Wu’s signature works also presented in this exhibition, the Cyano-Collage Series and Wrinkled Texture Series, collectively demonstrating his two-decade exploration of how images fundamentally alter our modes of seeing, imagining, and experiencing the world.
Cyano-Collage 235, 236, 237
氰山集之二百三十五，二百三十六，二百三十七
300 x 300 cm x 3 panels, 2024
吳季璁個展：氰山映月
開幕酒會 2024年12月19日, 7:30 pm
展覽日期 2024年12月19日至2025年3月29日
地址 爍樂（世界畫廊）, 台北市內湖區瑞光路390號
我們很榮幸地宣布，吳季璁個展「氰山映月」於爍樂（世界畫廊）全新台北空間盛大開幕。這是吳季璁與畫廊的第四次個展合作，展出作品包括場域特定裝置作品《臥月》（Lying Moon）、最新的氰山集系列，以及其最新實驗作品《皴法習作-消逝的原件》。
吳季璁為此開幕展創作了沉浸式攝影裝置《臥月》（2024），作品寬達六米，是專為畫廊空間量身打造。作品標題蘊含多重語意層次：就其最直觀的層面而言，它呈現了一輪橫臥地面的月亮，邀請觀眾實際躺臥其上。然而，「lying」一詞在此同時指向作品的概念性詭計——這是一輪具有欺騙性質的月亮，是從集體想像中建構而成的天體。月球表面那些我們所熟悉的環形坑與月海，皆由藝術家精心以沙粒構造、攝影、處理並拼貼而成的全新宇宙寓言。這種對「lying」的雙重解讀——既是實體的空間位置，也是詩意的欺瞞——化身為一個關於感知如何沿著生成軌跡展開的隱喻：它是湧現的、不確定的、偶然的、歷史性的，並在其展演過程中深具敘事性。《臥月》在技法與精神內核上，呈現出與同展的代表性作品《氰山集》及《皴法習作》系列的一致性與傳承，共同展現了吳季璁二十年來對圖像如何根本性地改變我們觀看、想像和體驗世界方式的探索。
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