Entangled Tokens
Entangled Tokens
Kuo-Wei Lin
2023.07.21 (Fri) - 07.23(Sun)
Kuo-Wei Lin’s work revolves around interrogating the physical and emotional aspects of the exchange system. In this way, Lin employs photography and sculpture to explore the creation of the exchange system. He shifts our attention from the materiality of currency to the substance of digital image storage, focusing on different aspects of patina. These can be seen through examples such as in “Commemoria,” the main visual of the exhibition. The act of pressing a coin creates an ambivalent consequence. On one hand, the elongated coin flattens the imprint of its circulation traces, while on the other hand, it stretches and curves into a new form.
Kuo-Wei Lin
Born in 1982 in Taiwan, Kuo-Wei Lin moved to Paris in 2000 and enrolled at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon in 2002. After attending the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig in 2005, he earned a Master of Art degree from Chelsea College of Art in London in 2007. In 2010, he participated in projects at the Institute für Kunst im Kontext, Universität der Künste Berlin, and in 2012 he earned his Meisterschüler at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee. Kuo-Wei Lin has exhibited his works at the Missread HKW, Berlin (2022); Papier Marché, Steirischer Herbst, Austria (2021); einBuch.haus Berlin (2020); Taipei Fine Arts Museum (2016); the Taipei Biennial (2014); the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei (2013); the Institut Français Berlin, Germany (2012). He lives and works in Bremen, Germany.
