Date：11-13.9.2025 (Thurs - Sat ) 12nn-6pm

As part of the artist residency, an Open Studio will be held at HART Haus, where visitors are invited to preview Min-Jia’s artistic process and encounter a selection of works developed over time. This intimate presentation offers a rare behind-the-scenes look at the artist’s creative journey before the exhibition opens at PODIUM, highlighting the reflections, gestures, and craft that shape her artistic language.

On this occasion, two kinetic shadow puppets from Min-Jia’s ongoing series Mother I–IV (2024–2025) will be on view. Conceived as a cycle recalling the four seasons, the Mother works embody the perpetual interplay of birth, death, and renewal through spectral, backlit figures whose mechanical forms cast uncanny silhouettes. In Mother II (Winter), chilling blue tones and braided strands twist into gyrating forms that evoke serpents and aeroplanes, conjuring rhythms of migration and cycles of transformation. In Mother IV (Summer), the figure proliferates into a hybrid moth with oscillating antennae, embodying both vitality and restraint, as straps and belts twist its body into tension. Together, these works capture Min-Jia’s exploration of cyclical existence, where life and lifelessness, bondage and renewal, are held in fragile balance.