Notes of Venice 1 今年是第56屆的威尼斯雙年展，現居紐約與慕尼黑、同時也是威尼斯首任非裔（奈及利亞）策展人Okwui Enwezor，以「全世界的未來（All The World's Futures）」為主題，策劃了此次於水都舉行的藝術盛會。雙年展除了綠園城堡（Giardini）與兵工廠（Arsale）兩個主會場、88個國家館各自散落在主會場與整個威尼斯市區水域之外，還有上百個大大小小的平行展覽進行著。
Waterfall stockist - Ti Pi Tin Ti Pi Tin店裡以藝術創作相關與攝影為大宗，在Kat眼中每一本都是獨一無二的藝術作品，也所以她會採取親自與藝術家聯繫、溝通進書事項，時不時也會在店裡舉辦新書發行等活動聚會。關於經營一間獨立書店，Kat自承最初對一切一無所知，但她認為這也是個優勢，「因為我完全不知道開書店是怎麼一回事，所以也不知道要如何害怕，就讓自己放手去做就對了。」
Fault Line by Sophie Barbasch "I chose the title because a fault line alludes to where the earth splits in an earthquake, a metaphor for a divided family with a complicated history, and also alludes to fault, or blame. I wonder, how does a family support each other, even when things aren't perfect?"
PUTPUT: Everyday is different! In sculptural or other three dimensional work you are quite of able to move around the object, to discover different perspectives and to decide what you want to see. Photography simply gives us the means to both document and decide what we want the audience to see…maybe we are control freaks!
A Vulgar Serial by Yuji Fann 拍生活的攝影師很多，有的紀實、有的拍日常或是拍自己。但我常想：如果為了拍照而上街，那我是在拍生活嗎？今天帶著相機就打算出去拍照，那今天是我的生活嗎？一個很刺激的畫面，跟一個無聊、但對我很有意義的畫面，到底哪一個算是生活？攝影和生活的關係於我常常是一種拉扯。
Kay Walkowiak: A Different Order In his photographs, sculptures and videos, Kay Walkowiak explores the concepts of emptiness and fullness, distance and proximity, display and situation. The artist combines ready-mades and minimalist objects and places them in dense choreographies and absurd narratives.
Plants in Error by exercise and edit The unconventional vases are customised for the weeds. The forms are inspired by their different characters, postures, textures, or stories. The materials used are artificial and suggest the living space of human beings. We tried to make the normally ignored and unwelcome weeds become the focal point, living harmoniously in people's interior habitats.
Untitled Happiness by Tjorven Bruyneel Townships were created for the blacks and separated from white residential areas by buffers. The denial of common rights produced a dual city and a dual nation, diverse urban worlds existing side by side in the same geographical space. Intermingling was rendered impossible by a whole administrative apparatus of laws, prohibitions and punishments.
Sabine Perigault: The Flow of the Substances Her images are build by combining different forms, objects and materials. By using basic and sometimes minimal shapes, She tries to hit the essence of the subject. Photography is her way of philosophizing about the structures and layers of our behavior towards others and ourselves.
Cache by Dana Stirling Family albums had become a standard in a process of portraying a family and the creation of a collective memory. Things as a birthday cake, children taking a bath or a family trip have become a portrait of the normal memory. Sometimes we don’t even remember the occasion but we can relive it by looking at the picture and assuming we remember the memory it represents.
Waterfall online archives: Travel Alone: 拉巴斯行書腳本 by 江凌青 「這題我也不會。」我又說了一遍——即使地理課本上的台灣氣候圖、雨量圖我都已背得熟透。 然而，這題我真的不會。 我開始陪著老畫家等待雨天。天堂流行起日光浴嗎？烈日如熨斗悠悠行過街角，燙平所有如小毛球突起的微風。人們的眼神乾裂成一片礫漠，整座島像受詛咒的蠟像館；各地開始限水，儲滿水的浴缸酒甕鍋碗瓢盆放眼望去，恍若太湖流域星羅棋布的大小湖泊。
Days of Threshold by Jeremy Ayer My images are about souvenirs or memories of certain places or actions. I think of them as visual echoes. There is something very intimate and familiar about these images but it is not shown overtly. It is alluded to in ways that makes the viewer start thinking of what it could be. I wish to trigger this mechanism in a visual art form.
"Floaters" by Mayumi Hosokura - Conversations and Book signing The artist Mayumi Hosokura is re-visiting Taipei in Jan for her new works, and we've arrange a book signing event during her stay. For the event, we've invited the founder of Shimokitazawa Books to start a casual conversation on photography, hot pots, books, Tokyo city and Taipei city with the artist.
Silent Voice of Love by Nita Vera After graduating from the Helsinki Upper Secondary School of Visual Arts she studied fine art at the Academy of Pekka Halonen and the Muurla Institute in Finland experimenting with different materials and techniques. Currently she is studying photography at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. She uses staged photography to explore themes such as relationships and femininity in our society.
Medianoche by Rafael Arocha Medianoche refers to a border that confronts us with certain limits. A temporary space in which we can explore the relationship between instinct and desire, the behaviours that they give rise to and the manifestation of our fantasies of seduction.
Sydney Sie: Into the Shape of Nothingness She's always searching an unique way to see the inside and the outside of things. Whether through multi-figured compositional complexity and suggestive narratives or with a straight forward and isolate human forms. There are autobiographical narratives at play very often.
A Form of View by Yoav Friedländer "My work is conjunction between Israel and America. It focuses on similarities and differences between two different cultures and sets of geographical locations seen through a perspective of an “Americanized Israeli”. The body of work combines photographs of landscapes, still lifes and scaled models of Israel and America. "
Abkhazia Summer by Julien Pebrel 曾被譽為黑海明珠的阿布哈茲，儘管政治情況備受爭議，如今逐漸罩上一層渡假天堂的濾鏡。阿布哈茲隨著歷史的流動一再地變化她的面容，不變的是，她仍是一塊夢土。
Arrangements by Clayton Cotterell 在Arrangements系列中，Clayton Cotterell醉心於攝影的自發性，簡練地捕捉光、顏色與形狀在觀景窗裡的相遇，做出開放且感性的詮釋。
NEW TACK ——伊丹豪 GO ITAMI 2014 TAIWAN EXHIBITION NEW TACK，日本攝影師伊丹豪繼柏林與東京個展之後，首次於亞洲其他國家所舉辦的初回大型個展。藉由訪談，窺看伊丹豪與台灣，以及全新的視覺提案。
