YULING HUANG Solo Exhibition — Private Key

YU-LING HUANG : Private Key July 1–17, 2023 Opening : July 1, 2023 19:00 Uitshinn 2F, 12 Taishun Street, Daan Dist, Taipei City 106

The exhibition works are mainly paintings created during home isolation during the epidemic. From 2019 to 2023, observation records of the Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests, personal psychological state, and home environment.

Explore all the artworks of Private Key.

Exhibition text: One by one, and although each person’s mind is separate from the other, their thoughts are conjoined, united, interwoven and entangled.

The scene kept changing, that night after I protested on the streets of Hong Kong and took the night bus from Mong Kok. The door opened and the singing of traditional Peking opera played on the car radio slowly faded away. Next step lead me walk into the conference room of Taiwan’s Ministry of the Interior, look out of the window, people were still stirring the soil of the driveway garden trying to plant seeds, and I looked at the hand holding the ballpoint pen, while the other hand was still paddling a canoe in the Pacific Ocean at the Marine School in Hualien.

“Do you know how much carbon the planet has left to budget for by 2030?” “The police will be coming that way, so wear a mask to avoid being caught on camera.” “One of our friends died.” “When the professor comes in, remember to hand in the document for today’s meeting.”

The scene kept changing, the reflections were actually no different whether in the high class office elevator or the water tank in the field. The Second Funeral Parlor was lined with flower baskets, I followed the sound of crying, walked into the bathroom of the cheap hotel, then soaked into the hot spring pool in Beitou. The steam was as hot as the tropical rainforest in Kuala Lumpur between my legs, luckily my tears were also warm. The background was New York’s Central Park, London’s Thames River Road Bridge, or Berlin’s subway train is 20 minutes late again, when the rats squeaked from the side, I missed the smell of the treasure mountain Tadpole coffee shop’s shiso rice balls.

“We can go into the toilets together” “There’s only one cigarette left, we can share.” “I’m giving you a chance.” “Don’t complain, you have to take 100% responsibility for your life.”

The lemon tree in the community park is bearing fruit, riding my bike around Taipei’s Riverbank Park, trying to measure the distance between the two whiskey glasses on the bar table or the seats in the university lecture hall, you are just a number in the big data, and your mind needs artificial intelligence to become complete, I smashed my cell phone against the wall and the glass shattered.

“You can do it if it’s you” “She’s hopeless.” “I’m in my car now. The storm broke down my car.” “We don’t need another hero.”

The eyes of the gods look down on everything at dusk. I wait half an hour for the drug to take effect, to see if I become a more normal person or a crazier one. I’m tired of playing the way you want me to. Only in painting can I be honest.

The world is too noisy, I want to be alone for a while. I’m not sure how to escape, but I can’t find the right place. I’m sorry, the key to home has long been lost, and it’s unclear if it was sold off or if it was left on XX’s car.

Zine

黃郁齡繪畫個展：私鑰

Time:2023/07/01–07/17 Opening:2023/07/01 19:00 地點：衛星台北市大安區泰順街12號2樓本次展覽作品主要為疫情居家隔離創作的繪畫作品，以韓炳哲《愛欲之死》為思考主軸，透過繪畫紀錄自2019年至2023年從參與香港反送中抗爭與個人的心理狀態、居家環境、城市空間之觀察。

展覽文字： 一個一個又一個腦袋彼此分離，思想卻藕斷絲連的牽引著彼此。

場景不停的換，那晚在香港的街頭抗議回程搭著旺角的夜巴到站，車門打開車上播著傳統京劇的歌聲漸遠，下一步踏入台灣內政部的會議室，窗外人們還在翻攪著車道花園的泥土試圖播種，我看著握著原子筆的手，另一隻手還在花蓮的海洋學校太平洋上一邊划著獨木舟。

「你知道地球到2030的碳預算還有多少嗎？」「等等警察會從那邊過來，戴上口罩以免被攝像機拍到。」「你的朋友又死了一個。」「等一下老師進來的時候，記得遞上今天開會的資料。」

場景不停的換，高級辦公室的電梯與田間自架蓄水桶裡的倒影其實沒有兩樣，低頭望著社群軟體對話視窗，傳來的不管是喜訊還是死訊，總比機器人自動發送的APP通知讓人感覺好一點。

第二殯儀館前排滿著花籃，沿著哭聲我走進廉價旅館的浴室，泡進北投的溫泉大眾池，蒸氣如吉隆坡的熱帶雨林像雙腿間一樣濕熱，還好我的眼淚也是熱的，背景是紐約的中央公園，是倫敦的泰晤士河道橋上，或者柏林的地鐵又遲了20分鐘，老鼠從旁邊發出吱吱叫聲時，我想念寶藏巖尖蚪紫蘇飯糰的味道。

「等一下我們一起進去廁所。」「只剩最後一根菸，我想跟你一起抽。」「我是給你機會。」「不要抱怨，你要為你的人生負起100%的責任。」

社區公園的檸檬樹結果了，騎著單車繞著台北的河堤公園，試著從測量酒店桌上那兩個威士忌玻璃杯或是大學講堂的座位席間的距離，你不過是大數據裡面的一個數字，而你的思想需要透過人工智慧才能變得完整，我將手機往牆面砸去而玻璃碎了一地。

「是你的話一定可以的。」「他沒救了。」「我現在在車上，暴雨讓我的車拋錨了。」「We don’t need another hero.」

Become a Medium member 諸神的雙眼在黃昏裡俯視著一切，等我半小時。等發揮藥效之後看我會變成一個更正常的人或者更瘋狂的人。我厭倦了扮演你想要的樣子。只有在繪畫裡我可以誠實。

這個世界太吵了，我想一個人靜一靜。不管怎麼逃還是不能適得其所。真抱歉，回家的鑰匙早就掉了，不管是被賣掉還是掉在ＯＯ的車上。