
Amy Cheng, Ex-director/Co-founder of TheCube Project Space
Winsing Art Place (1/F. 6, Lane 10, Lane 180, Section 6, Minquan East Road, Neihu District, Taipei City)
$200 (including bookstore entrance fee)
Unrestricted
Curated and organized by the Winsing Arts Foundation, Anri Sala: AS YOU GO brings together three of the artist’s recent video works: Ravel, Ravel, Take Over, and If and Only If. Through music, Anri Sala explores the relationship between historical events and our personal experiences, inviting viewers to move between screens and experience the spaces of separation in music, history, and culture.
For this talk, the Foundation invited Amy Cheng, founder of TheCube Project Space, to delve into Anri Sala’s work AS YOU GO, currently on view at Winsing Art Place. Amy examined Sala’s past and recent works, exploring how the artist guides viewers into layered realms of reality and possibility. Replacing language with music, Sala’s videos emphasize embodied, immersive experience. The event concluded with a guided walk through of the exhibition, inviting the audience to feel the fluid interplay of time and space.
“Anri Sala explores the ambiguity within life’s situations—those overlapping states we often find ourselves in, where things are not entirely black or white. These moments can be two realities coexisting, merging, or even creating contradictions. It’s a kind of ambiguity that is difficult to fully express in words.” - Amy Cheng
At the beginning of the talk, Amy Cheng started by discussing the political and social context of Albania, then moved on to explore Anri Sala’s video works from his early to more recent periods. In Dammi i Colori (2003), a vivid interplay of colors and sounds unfolds through city scenes captured by Sala, paired with commentary from then-mayor Edi Rama on urban reconstruction. Time After Time presents a lone horse on a highway as a metaphor for the tension between nature and modernization, reflecting conflicting yet intertwined notions of time. In Mixed Behavior and Le Clash, fireworks, DJ beats, and fragmented renditions of music played on different instruments convey contradictions and overlaps between past and present temporalities.
The talk also touched on Anri Sala’s 2004 solo exhibition Entre Chien et Loup/Between Dog and Wolf, which metaphorically alludes to a specific event or a state of life. The title refers to the ambiguous moment at dusk when dogs and wolves are indistinguishable — a time of day when things exist in a state of transition. This in-between state is marked by duality and ambiguity, where no single definition can fully capture the nature of a situation — a theme that deeply fascinates Anri Sala. The lecture concluded by returning to the exhibition AS YOU GO at Winsing Art Place, which brings together three major video works: Ravel Ravel, Take Over, and If and Only If. These works explore the contrapuntal relationships — and the subtle stitching — between music, image, time, and space, forming a fluid, interwoven experience.
