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吳建興 Wu Chien-Hsing

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Wu Chien-Hsing (b. 1987, Taiwan; lives and works in Taipei) works primarily in sculpture, mixed media, and spatial installation. His early practice began with reflections on the interpersonal networks and value systems constructed around the notion of “home.” Wu seeks to identify correspondences between Taiwan’s shifting industrial structure and his own life experiences—his family business was also affected by industrial transformation. Through artistic practice, he attempts to create new forms of expression for industries that are gradually fading, allowing them to be re-seen and reconsidered within different cultural contexts.

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His works are often based on everyday objects and industrial materials. Through dismantling, reconfiguration, and layered accumulation, Wu explores how matter transforms and persists within different structural arrangements. By researching industrial production processes and the origins of materials, he reconsiders the cycles, orders, and contradictions embedded within systems of production, transforming originally functional materials into sculptural spatial structures.

Wu’s visual language incorporates elements of mythology, prophecy, and anti-traditional sculpture, establishing connections between multiple conceptual realms—past and future, life and death, craft and industry, the secular and the sacred, as well as reality and fiction. Through these intersections, his works reflect the cultural legacy shaped by consumerism and modernity.

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Growing up amid Taiwan’s industrial transformation, Wu has long been attentive to disappearing industrial techniques and labor cultures. His work connects personal life experiences with the historical trajectory of industrial change. Within a post-industrial landscape, he reflects on how structure, labor, and memory continue to exist, creating spatial experiences that are both symbolic and poetic through the interplay and transformation of materials.​​

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吳建興（1987 年生於台灣，現生活與工作於台北）以雕塑、複合媒材與空間裝置為主要創作形式。其早期創作從對「家」所建構的人際網絡與價值體系的省察出發，並試圖在台灣產業結構轉變與自身生命經驗之間尋找對應關係——藝術家的家庭事業亦曾受到產業轉型的影響。透過藝術實踐，他試圖為逐漸式微與凋零的產業尋找新的發聲位置，使其得以在不同文化脈絡中被重新看見與關注。

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其作品多以日常物件與工業材料為基礎，透過拆解、重組與複數堆疊，探索物質在不同結構中的轉化與延續。藝術家透過對工業製造與材料來源的考據，重新觀看物件在生產體系中的循環、秩序與矛盾，並將原本具有功能性的材料轉化為具有雕塑性的空間結構。

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其創作語彙融合神話、預言與反傳統雕塑的元素，在過去與未來、生與死、工藝與工業、世俗與神聖、現實與虛構等多重概念之間建立連結，映照消費主義與現代化所形塑的文化遺產。

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成長於台灣產業轉型的背景之中，吳建興長期關注逐漸消逝的工業技術與勞動文化。其作品連結個人生命經驗與產業變遷的歷史脈絡，在後工業景觀中思考結構、勞動與記憶如何持續存在，並透過材料在空間中的交織與轉化，形塑出兼具象徵性與詩性的感知經驗。