ARRIVALS OF NIGHT
炙亮夜
DETAILS
Resin, Metal Plate, Desk Lamp, Metal Shavings, Motion-sensor Lamp Base, Ventilation Ball Installation, Fan, CRT Installation, Single-channel Video (color, sound), Double-channel Videos (B/W,no sound)
2025
NOTES
2025 Arrivals of Night, Glitch, Taichung, Taiwan.
On cool nights in Taiwan, fields light up with clusters of artificial lamps, their glow seeping into the darkness like the breath of a ritual. These are not stars, nor city lights. Plants are forced to awaken—their growth cycles rewritten by light and time.
Arrivals of Night begins with the dragon fruit, weaving together childhood memories, historical trajectories, and a globalized perspective. The crop’s transnational journey spans colonization, warfare, and trade—its body continually reshaped by shifting systems of power.
Through video, illuminated installations, and sculptural works, the exhibition unfolds a multi-sensory narrative that reveals how human technologies intervene in nature and reshape life. The fruit is no longer merely a fruit, but a transformed vessel of memory—a verse in the entanglement between nature and technology. These plants grow in sleep, shimmer in dreams, breathe within metal, and glow in moisture. As the night burns bright and sleepless, we are left to ask: are we too being scorched by our civilization?
