SHIU JUI TSZ

_{Now (right), 2025
Now and Future (left), 2025
Giclée print
144 × 81cm}

These two works are image compositions created through the repetitive arrangement and extension of stainless steel kitchenware. The oppressive visual effect produced by repetition recalls the artist’s experience of working in a restaurant kitchen. The neatly aligned utensils fragment the field she occupied into a grid, mapping a temporary territory shaped by displacement and migration.

In Now, the viewpoint is directed downward, revealing a confined field of vision that reflects the limitations of perception and the boundaries of the artist’s immediate surroundings. In Now and Future, the perspective shifts diagonally, allowing the grid to extend indefinitely. This infinite expansion responds to the uncertainty of the future and the sense of helplessness brought about by repetitive labor.

_{現在（右），2025
現在與未來（左），2025
藝術微噴
144 × 81cm}

此兩件作品為不鏽鋼器皿的重複排列與延伸而成的影像。重複性的影像所造成的壓迫感，將藝術家拉回在廚房打工的當下，排列整齊的器皿像是將自身所處的場域分解為格柵，也是在遷移過程中的自我版圖。

〈現在〉是眼前低頭所看見的有限版圖與被侷限的視線和感知；〈現在與未來〉的視角則是傾斜的，版圖無限延伸，回應當時對於未來的未知與重複勞動下的無力感。

Photos 1&2 courtesy of Taipei Fine Arts Museum