Whispers on the Horizon: The 14th Taipei Biennial
Whispers on the Horizon: The 14th Taipei Biennial examines how the Taipei Fine Arts Museum’s latest biennial navigates the tension between international visibility and local cultural specificity. Framed around the concept of “yearning”—defined as migration, identity, memory, and futurity—the exhibition reveals both the strengths and limitations of its curatorial structure. Through close analysis of works by Shiy De-Jinn, Hera Büyüktaşçıyan, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Skyler Chen, and Ni Hao, the essay interrogates how the Biennial negotiates Taiwan’s geopolitical positioning within global contemporary art. While visually compelling and institutionally ambitious, the 14th Taipei Biennial ultimately exposes the unresolved friction between global validation and self-definition.