Taiwan’s Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale 2019 Announces 3x3x6 by Shu Lea Cheang (CRF 2001). Shu Lea Cheang presents a site specific multimedia research project including images, installations, and computer programming that explores the ideas of confinement and liberation.
Expanding on the artist’s practice over the last three decades, Cheang presents a new multimedia research project, including images, installations, and computer programming in which past and present, virtual and real worlds converge.
The Palazzo delle Prigioni, a prison across from the Palazzo Ducale, will house the exhibition in Venice. Using this location as an opportunity for a site-specific work, Cheang will create an immersive installation with multiple interfaces to reflect on different technologies of confinement and control, from physical incarceration to omnipresent surveillance systems in contemporary society.
Cheang states, “With this exhibition we explore the possible strategies for resistance against highly controlled societies, the self-affirming dignity against repression, and the variable versions of self-granted pursuits for (un)happiness.”