The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum presents Taiwan Discovered: In Place and Time, a new exhibition opening Friday, February 19 at 6 p.m. This event, free and open to the public, will take place at The Frost Art Museum at FIU’s Maidique Campus located at 10975 SW 17 Street, Miami, FL 33199.

“Taiwan Discovered: In Place and Time continues The Frost Art Museum’s foray into the world of Asian art. This exhibition will showcase true Taiwanese contemporary artists,” said Dr. Carol Damian, director & chief curator of The Frost Art Museum. “It is the first of its kind in the Southeast region.”

Taiwan Discovered: In Place and Time, will be curated in-house by Director Carol Damian and Catalina Jaramillo. The exhibition will showcase Taiwanese contemporary artists: mixing traditional and contemporary, Asian and Western, local and international. Taiwan's artists are exploring different approaches and developing their own unique styles through a wide variety of media, from painting and rock art to multimedia installations.

I’d like to let audiences catch sight of the whole four sets of Roaming around the Ruins which were put together on the exhibition hall. The display can not only show the best visual effect, but can present the strong relatively relationship between post-cool war era and Neo-liberal era comprehensively.To let the volumes of black-and-white photographs have strength to criticize reality, I’ve taken the attitude of not getting involved. I use “political geography” as my concept to deal with the subject instead of being a ruin fan or an unusual spectacle collector. Roaming around the Ruins is an artwork that shows my contiguous focus on dispute which I’ve been observing over a long period of time between Taiwan and China.

“Roaming around the Ruins Ⅰ-The Civilization Built by Skeleton” is about traditional industry in Taiwan. Due to the global competition, environmental pollution and corruption, most of highly polluted industries have been emigrating to lower expenditure country-China. Those abandoned factories concealed complicated political problems between China and Taiwan, and those issues are not totally caused by liberal economy market. There are theses in my publication-- Roam The Ruins of Taiwan,2004.

“Roaming around the Ruins Ⅱ-Far off Home” was shooting variety of Taiwan’s civil abandoned houses. There were many reasons of abandoning, but I gathered up the cases which caused by cool war, emigration and economy activities requirement. There are theses in my publication-- Ruined Islands, 2007.

“Roaming around the Ruins Ⅲ- All Quiet on the Western Front” was discussing these “front lines of front lines” in cool war through shooting around the military ruins and abandoned prisons from offshore island of Taiwan; however, they were abandoned massively because of “Mini Three-Links”. Taiwan used to try to strike back at mainland China, and China would like to liberate Taiwan as well. Under the globalization, these two different systems seem to have reached an agreement through the strength of economy, but it also conceals the war crisis in the same time. There are theses in my publication-- Ruined Islands, 2007.

“Roaming around the Ruins Ⅳ - Gods ＆ Idols Surround the Border” was shooting about Taiwan’s civil “exercise of making deities”. Because the material desire couldn’t be satisfied so that the deity dulls were abandoned. It revealed another virtual world which seemed look like surreal but extremely real. I also rearranged and published Beyond Humanity, 2008 last year.