Rain series II 「雨淋 2.0」

300*300*280cm, Glass, glass louver brackets, pallet, sapele, 12V motor, curtain draw cord, plywood, 2025

Hualien Art Museum, hualien city, Taiwan

"Rain series II" is my first piece designed through a spatial thinking methodology, extended from the previous "Rain series" of works.

When designing the second edition of "Rain series ii", I magnified these three works so they could incorporate the audience, allowing viewers to enter the work and experience the atmosphere I constructed.

I scaled the original "Glass Louver Window" from its original independent form to a full wall, fixed it together with the adjacent exhibition wall to form an L-shaped space. The external exhibition lights imitate the late-evening sunset, casting the semi-transparent shadow of the louvered glass onto the wall, shaping the atmosphere of a house.

Simultaneously, I re-magnified the "Shiplap" to a length of six meters, placing the piece above the exhibition walls to serve as the house's ceiling. Due to its curved nature, the parts of the ceiling close to the walls are lower, creating an inexplicable sense of oppression in the space, echoing the concept of the colonial empire's "envelopment."

At the same time, I re-arranged the original "Circular Louver" into a sound-emitting pendant lamp hanging from the ceiling. Because a motor is constantly rotating, causing the pendant lamp to continuously sway, it in turn generates an inexplicable sense of the bizarre.

Finally, in the left corner of the wall is the small electrical box that drives all the motors and lights for the works. The reason for keeping it is that in architecture, electricity is managed through a central control system for convenience, corresponding to the unified management of the colonial empire across the world.