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Centred on weaving culture and re-examining Indigenous lifeways of coexisting with nature, The Exhibition of Northern Taiwan’s Indigenous Material Culture interweaves 10 Indigenous cultural centres, transcending geography to deepen cultural exchange and community understanding.
Year
2023
Scope
Exhibition Design & Production
Decentring Han-centric visual language
Re-tracing early Indigenous inter-tribal routes that cut through the mountains and decentring the Han-centric, mountain-avoiding lens on circulation, a central lobby concept renders Northern Taiwan’s contours and mountain spine, symbolising multiple cultural centres converging toward the heart of the mountains for the common good.Translating weaving culture into spatial experiences
Translating the Atayal ground-loom’s up-and-down threading around wooden rods into a spatial language, I designed five modular timber units. Fabric panels carry the content and weave through the timber framework, accommodating varied content densities and collections to enable flexible storytelling and display across the open venue.Deriving a palette from native flora
The colour palette draws from natural dyes used in Taiwanese Indigenous textile practice: blood-yam red, ramie off-white, bamboo green, rattan brown, parasol-tree yellow, mountain-hemp yellow, paper-mulberry bark (tan), onion brown, Spanish-needle green, and passion-fruit yellow, etc.
