Tsai & Yoshikawa reveals a new mixed-media light installation Bliss of Luxuriance in Taipei Songshan Cultural and Creative Park.

The work is inspired by Albizia blossoms and portrays an abstract presentation of a flower fluttering and dancing in the breeze. In the daytime, this floral light installation with colourful and vivid fluorescent petals reaches out and dances gradually with the sunlight. At night, the work illuminates and blooms like fireworks, presenting luminescent imagery of an endless life cycle.

Borrowing from the ideas of fractal structure in botanic studies, the work is seen with various delicate organic structures. Using the elongated feature positioned in the centre of two window frames in Songshan Cultural and Creative Park as the axis for the work, it layers up the imagery of the work with the reflection of water on the ground. The artists use enduring materials such as aluminium and Perspex to embody the idea of sustainability and eternity. Coloured with vivid fluorescent paint, fluorescent-shaped petals reflect the delicacy of light and shadow. At night, the work shines and glows in the dark, creating the vitality of photosynthesis. With the combination of the dream-like reflection in the water, the entire work becomes a celebration of dance in nature.

It is an art piece where visitors are welcome to enjoy it physically both during daytime and at night because the appearance of this installation transforms when observed from different spatial positions and the constancy over time. Senses in humans are more powerful when you view the work in the environment. As Tsai & Yoshikawa deeply believes that, mankind’s senses are different between reality and online worlds as the genuine face-to-face visiting experience triggers stronger emotions and a stronger visual impact in memories, which has been a significant motivation in their artistic career to create such impressive installation.

Bliss of Luxuriance
2020
Aluminium, fluorescent paint, Perspex, stainless steel wire
280 x 300 x 120 cm each

Commissioned by Songshan Cultural and Creative Park 松山文創園區 for Plant A Trip (蘵人Style) exhibition 16 - 25 October 2020