For the third group exhibition, the Group of Seventeen Heads settled on the theme of blisters (皰), though on the flyer this unfortunately has been printed as "elister."
The group - consisting of graduates from Taiwan Normal University's Department of Fine Arts - is down to nine heads, who turned to their own blisters, their carefully concealed traumas, for inspiration.
Free to interpret the theme and their medium, their works on show at the small Front art caf谷 range from photographs and oil paintings to installations and video works.
Hsu Shu-nuan (許淑暖), for example, drew upon her experiences following a traffic accident to create Examination. The light boxes resemble cells seen through a microscope and were originally drawn by pen, then altered by computer.
"Drawing circles made me aware of every nerve and muscle in my body," she said in a telephone interview. "This introspection was the only way to see my disease clearly and cure it."
Su hue-yu (蘇匯宇) takes a different approach to healing his blisters in the canvasses he displays. His wounds are the neat, geometrical surroundings one often sees in interior design advertisements; his medication is to paint phantom-like shapes among outlines of those sterile surroundings.
The exhibition is rather uneven, but the few successfully healed blisters among those still hurting do make a visit worthwhile.
Elister: the Exhibition of the Seventeen Heads III (皰：十七顆頭展展覽III) is on show until June 16 at front art cafe (前藝術), 20 Minsheng E. Rd. Sec 5 (民生東路五段20號), daily from 5pm to midnight.
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