Unsettled Territories
2026.07.03～2026.09.27
Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts
Curator
Wei-Ling Hung
Daren Fu
Participating Artists
Alison Khor
Kai-Yuan Chi
Greys Compuesto
Filipino Community in Taiwan
Yunyi Liu
Ting-Ting Cheng
Kacaw DJ Hatfield
Ateng A’yic
Looking Back from Offshore: Re-imaging Taiwan through Blurred Boundaries
When we speak of “Taiwan,” we often imagine the island as a clear center defined by its coastline. “Unsettled Territories” shifts this perspective outward, turning instead to the geo-relational networks beyond the island and inviting viewers to look back from offshore.
This approach considers the interior through the exterior. When political signifiers such as “nation” and “sovereignty” are set aside, Taiwan emerges not as an isolated point but as a dynamic node shaped through movement, encounter, and lived experience. Here, boundaries are no longer fixed geopolitical lines, but are woven from departure, arrival, and the echoes of body and memory across places.
The “unsettled” of the exhibition title suggests an ongoing state of suspension—never fully arriving, never fully at rest. “Displacement” evokes fragments shaped through the search for belonging, while “memory,” like a distant lighthouse, guides both return and continuation. Together they form an unsettled territory that is neither refuge nor final destination.
Rather than framing diasporic experience through war, colonial histories, or national narratives alone, this exhibition invites a closer encounter with the fragile yet essential moments often overlooked within them, asking essential questions: What is this place? What is home?
“Unsettled Territories” unfolds through three interwoven axes that explore movement and the shifting of boundaries.
Island Migrations and Fractures of Memory
Beginning from Taiwan’s outlying islands, Yunyi Liu’s the vanishing Portrait–Kinmen series reflects on the abandoned Western-style houses shaped by Kinmen’s history as a Cold War frontline. The Colonial Ghost series further reveals the migration histories of Kinmen families who journeyed to Southeast Asia in search of work. Through architectural traces found in both Malaysia and Kinmen, the works reflect the intertwined histories of migration, memory, and home across two places that mirror one another. In 72 Nautical Miles, Kai-Yuan Chi examines the continuous migration of Penghu migrants between Kaohsiung and Penghu through the traditional Prosperity Turtle, tracing movements shaped by historical currents. The disappearance of the home here is not only spatial, but historical. When the homeland can no longer be taken as a given place of belonging, how do we locate memory between movement and the decision to stay?
Exhibition Production Team
Exhibition Coordinator｜Daren Fu
Technical Coordination｜Manifesto Production
Education Program Coordinator｜Wei-Ling Hung
Visual Design｜Shan-Yu Tsai