Awakening:
HONG Yong Xin, YEH Tsai Wei, TSAI Yu Chen
Awakening
March 14 — April 20, 2025
Artists
HONG Yong Xin
YEH Tsai Wei
TSAI Yu Chen
Scent Collaboration｜YùYù
Hiro Hiro Art Space is honored to present the group exhibition Awakening with the arrival of a new season. Inspired by the endless cycle of renewal in nature and the land during early spring, the exhibition guides viewers to encounter the charm of the season in a multisensory way, engaging sight, sound, scent, and touch.
Envision wandering through a newly awakened forest, where tender green leaves glisten with morning dew, roses unfurl their petals in the mist, wild creatures peek out foraging for food, and purple blossoms sway in the breeze. The air is alive with the fresh scent of flowers, fruits, and foliage. Through natural materials and depictions of flora and fauna, artists HONG Yong Xin, YEH Tsai Wei, and TSAI Yu Chen capture the vibrant vitality of nature and raw textures of earth, revealing a delicate balance of sunlight, wildlife, wind’s whisper, the fluidity of water, and verdant greenery.
The creative processes of these three artists are a subjective collection and reconstruction of intuition, perception, and experience, akin to gathering fragments of inspiration: HONG Yong Xin explores the symbiotic tensions between humans and animals through classical motifs and wild imagery; YEH Tsai Wei’s delicate brushwork records the nuances of daily life, revealing the grace of life’s gestures; TSAI Yu Chen constructs imagined spatial realms, where painted borders, framed to capture shifting perspectives, compress elements within. From allegorical murals and poetic expressions to contemporary visual experiments, the exhibition embodies a yearning for spring’s arrival, an awakening of the senses and a profound connection between humanity and the natural world.
The sensations that unfold with spring gradually extend, pulsing in subtle rhythms—serene yet brimming with energy. This exhibition also features an interactive musical installation, where the gentle touch of a fingertip across a pear, an iris, a gerbera, or a garden star-of-Bethlehem releases unique sounds. Enveloped in the echoes of nature, fragrance softly permeates and saturates the senses. In a first-time collaboration, Hiro Hiro Art Space and Taiwanese fragrance brand YùYù present a limited-edition perfume named after the exhibition, blending the crisp sweetness of pear with the depth of black tea, accented by bergamot and pear blossom. By transforming abstract sensations into vision, scent, tactile experience and sounds, the exhibition invites viewers on a journey of sensory and spiritual renewal.
HONG Yong Xin, b.1993
Hong Yung-Hsin (b. 1993, New Taipei City, Taiwan) graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at National Taiwan Normal University and later earned a master’s degree from the Department of Painting and Calligraphy Arts at National Taiwan University of Arts. Integrating mineral pigments with elements of classical art, her works explore the intricate relationship between humans and animals. Adopting a fable-like perspective, she revisits childhood connections with nature, drawing from ancient murals and folk art to depict animals as cultural symbols.
Favoring mineral pigments and greige fabric, she sands the surface and washes it to evoke the aged texture of murals. Influenced by ancient sculptures and miniature paintings, her works capture the ambiguity and folds of perception, offering a reflection on human nature.
YEH Tsai Wei, b.1988
YEH Tsai-Wei, born in 1988 in Hsinchu, Taiwan, holds a Master’s degree from the Department of Fine Arts at Taipei National University of the Arts. She is currently an artist and an adjunct instructor at the School of Fine Arts at Taipei National University of the Arts. Her works revolve around scenes from personal memory and inner projections, delicately and sensitively weaving emotional elements into her compositions. Using ink and eastern gouache, she conveys a sense of nostalgic and wistful reflection within her warm and harmonious imagery, while also revealing a contradiction between anticipation and doubt toward the future. She received an Honorable Mention in the Kaohsiung Award (2015, 2017), and her works are included in the collections of the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts and the Art Bank Taiwan.
TSAI Yu Chen, b.2000
TSAI Yu-Chen, born in 2000 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Fine Arts at National Kaohsiung Normal University. She has received the 2024 NEXT ART TAINAN, the 2023 Hualien Art Exhibition Silver Award, and has been selected for the 2023 Dadun Fine Arts Exhibition, the 2023 Yunlin Culture and Art Award, and the 2022 Pingtung Awards.
Her artistic journey revolves around the fluidity of perspectives. Through exploration and growth in her creative process, she has developed a distinctive approach to capturing still life. By employing the concept of “collection,” she transforms intangible objects from everyday life into cherished subjects within her paintings.
