Hsu Chia-Wei's Video Art Explores Spirit and History

Taipei artist Hsu Chia-Wei is spotlighted in ArtReview Asia's Future Greats series, overseen by curator Ho Tzu Nyen. His 2015 video, "Ruins of the Intelligence Bureau," begins with natural forest sounds and features a puppet of Hanuman, controlled by three masked puppeteers. This piece explores the narrative of a former Nationalist intelligence officer who fled from Yunnan to Myanmar before eventually residing in Chiang Rai, coinciding with a performance at an old intelligence facility in Huai Mo Village along the Thai-Myanmar border. Hsu, who won the Gold Award for Documentary at WorldFest-Houston in 2016, will open a solo exhibit at Liang Gallery on June 10.