鋁形蟲 Aluminum Crawler
06.《#33遊樂考古學》
#33 Archaeology of Play
吳美琪 Wu MeiChi
關於作品
About this project
捷運圓山站周邊曾是史前貝塚、動物園與兒童樂園的所在，承載著城市不斷更迭的記憶。作品靈感源自圓山多重的歷史層疊，一座座靜物拼貼的浮島映照著人們心中的樂園。藝術家吳美琪蒐集並再造不同時期的物件，透過場景布置與靜態攝影，重現兒童樂園與動物園的歡樂氛圍。這些影像宛如打開抽屜般，翻出一幕幕被遺忘的回憶，也喚起觀者心中專屬的「考古記憶」與情感連結。
The area around the MRT Yuanshan Station once held a prehistoric shell mound, a zoo, and a children’s amusement park, bearing witness to the city’s constant transformation. Inspired by these layers of history, the work presents floating islands of still-life collages, each reflecting an imagined paradise in people’s hearts. The artist MeiChi Wu collects and re-creates objects from different eras, staging them in carefully arranged scenes and still photographs to bring the joys of the amusement park and zoo back to life. These images open like drawers of memory, revealing fragments of forgotten recollections while awakening a deeply personal sense of “archaeological memory” and emotional connection within each viewer.
Artist
吳美琪 /
Wu MeiChi臺灣 / Taiwan
Mei-Chi is a new-generation visual artist in the digital era, known for her innovative use of media. Drawing from her personal life experiences and the characteristics of our increasingly hybrid world—where the virtual and the real intertwine—she creates works rooted in color still-life photography. Her practice weaves together elements of still life, studio photography, abstraction, image culture, and scientific experimentation, producing images that explore color, light, and spatial composition.
Her major solo exhibitions include “Pairs Photo” (a work collected by the Huis Marseille Museum of Photography, Amsterdam), “Baby’s Baby” (2024, Jimei × Arles International Photo Festival, Discovery Award Nominee), “Pandora’s Box” (A26 Space, Beijing), and “YXX – The Flares” (2019, AKI Gallery).
Selected group exhibitions include “The Abstract Eye” (2023, National Center of Photography and Images, Taiwan), “Artists’ Windows” (2022, Taichung Art Bank), and shows at Gallery Common, Tokyo.
