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1993
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Ting Hsu was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1993, and obtained her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of London, Chelsea College of Arts, UK.
Ting Hsu was awarded with the Next Art Tainan Award in 2019 and the S-An Cultural Foundation Art Award in 2018. Her work has exhibited at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan (2021); Trestle Gallery, New York, USA (2020); IT Park (solo), Taipei, Taiwan (2019); Lewisham Arthouse Gallery, London, UK (2018); her outdoor works has exhibited in Yu Guang Island Art Festival, Tainan, Taiwan (2021); Yujin Lantern Festival, Tainan, Taiwan (2021) and Tainan Public Library (2020).
Ting Hsu likens photography to painting, the act of producing brushstrokes with the camera. Her imagery is based on her surroundings, such as scenes from the city streets or her room. In this work Hsu recalls a place from her childhood – the Xiaoyouken Bridge on Yangming Mountain. At night, the bridge would sometimes be flooded with fog, and under the gloomy glow of the street light, the bridge appeared to be a tunnel suspended in middle of the universe. The black and white lines that are abstracted from the original scene, enlarged and arranged into a fragmented pattern, seemingly creating moving st ...
Ting Hsu regards her photographic works as a process rather than a conclusion. Her works attempt to extend the photographic image beyond the finite moment in which it is captured. Her images are often abstracted until distance, time and place are blurred and unfold into the present space. Her series of work titled ’04:53:77’ plays on this concept, where the numbers could mean a specific unit of time, yet it also implies an unknown code, or units of an imagined space and time. The series contains three photographic works, originally exhibited together like split screens depicting events from different ...
Ting Hsu considers the photographic image as entering the post-production process at the moment it is created. From shooting to display, her clear and purposeful manipulation studies the photographic concepts of light and shadow, as well as how the picture frame and structural elements can highlight the connection between image, space and the viewer. For the work 'Bright Light' Hsu colors the inner sides of the frame black, that can only be seen when viewed from an angle. This subtle element echoes the natural shadows created by the frame, a simple gesture that attempts to highlight the abstraction of time and space within the image, while engaging with the specificity of the viewer's experience.
Ting Hsu continues to explore how to present her work in a space more naturally, assessing the architecture and how light travels within a space. For the artwork 'Paper in Shadow', Hsu observes the angles of light in the space and creates a color block underneath the photographic image, echoing the light patterns at different times of the day. This semi-site specific gesture reflects Hsu’s central question: “if documentary photography is a record of the real environment, then in my work, the documentary has no end, but is always in process.”
Ting Hsu's recent works transform her memories into colors and lines, crossing between pure abstraction and reality, the composition of each work is inspired by the photographs she took of her surroundings or local sites, observing the shapes and light patterns of the environment.