A Story About Affection — Beloved King Kong Vajradhara (有關愛情的故事 — 金剛愛金剛) presents a gorilla on a lotus leaf embracing a figure that looks like a mermaid. The sculpture suggests that people no longer project their yearnings onto spiritual idols, but that today cartoons and superheroes are the symbols by which people make sense of their lives.
Though many of these works have been seen before at different Taipei venues (Tu’s at a 2003 exhibit at MOCA, Taipei; Yang’s at the Madden Reality exhibit that just ended at TFAM), bringing them together in one show raises many interesting questions about the mythology of creation and observation, while avoiding the theoretical jargon that could have easily bogged down this very enjoyable exhibition.
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