Habitat | Lu Yen -Yu

For the first exhibition after the Chinese New Year holiday in 2017, Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art has invited four promising contemporary artists of realist art from different fields to hold four respective exhibitions. The attempt corresponds to one of the museum's long-term objectives, which is to "strive for increasing the visibility of Taiwanese contemporary realist art." We also hope that the artistic warmth of the works would capture the attention of international and domestic art lovers and lead our audience to care about the contemporary environment and society.

Lu Yen-Yu returned to her hometown, Yilan, after finishing her study, and started seeking artistic inspiration in life. During the process, she perceived the memories that she hoped to reserve through her work in the changes of the city. The exhibition, Habitat, reveals her observation and depiction of her living space in recent years, beckoning at various aspects of modern people's life. In her opinion, people create sites and places that simultaneously shape their life. Therefore, she begins to integrate the human form with the idea of site, creating a wide range of symbolic forms and appearances. They might be a protective feather shell, a wall that separates people from individuals, or cyclic forms that revert the inner and outer psychological spaces. Meanwhile, the artist also finds creative ideas in her surrounding environment, and cleverly incorporates debris of bricks into her ceramic sculptures. By demonstrating modern people's longing for freedom of the mind in a manner that combines both abstract and concrete forms, her work is also a kind of testimony to the vicissitudinous landscape or cityscape, reminding the audience to remain aware of their living environment.