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Tina Keng Gallery
Yuan Goang-ming
Before Memory
9 min, 400 x 1155 x 880 cm. Courtesy Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei.
There is little doubt that the video works in Yuan Goang-ming’s recent exhibition “Before Memory” represent high technical achievements—but are they achievements as art? With newness as an oversold virtue in contemporary arts nowadays, and with technological fetishism as a dominant force in contemporary culture, one has to ask the question cautiously.
The 46-year-old Yuan is…