曾 彦翔、堤 麻乃、呉 依宣

Sean Tseng, Asano Tsutsumi, Sara Wu

“The Lived Photography” reconsiders photography not as an object to be simply viewed, but as a medium that is continuously generated and experienced in real time. Bringing together three artists from Taiwan and Japan—Sean Tseng, Asano Tsutsumi, and Sara Wu—the exhibition presents site-specific works that respond directly to the architectural and spatial conditions of gallery Unfold.

Each artist approaches photography as both material and spatial practice, producing works that traverse photography, sculpture, and installation. In this exhibition, the gallery’s most defining architectural feature—the French windows—is reconceived as a fundamental condition of photography, one that allows light and shadow to pass through the space while resonating with the works inside. Functioning as a mediating apparatus, the windows draw in the constantly shifting external world—weather, traffic, and the presence of passersby—bringing both photography and its surrounding environment into heightened visibility. Tseng develops a phenomenological exploration of space through sculptures that incorporate the light and shadow appearing within the gallery. In response, Wu repositions photographs that capture multiple spaces as material elements within the exhibition, activating bodily engagement in the act of viewing. Tsutsumi, drawing inspiration from the architecture itself, embraces reflections on glass surfaces and the images mirrored on the surfaces of the works, transforming them into integral components of the artwork.

In this way, the gallery itself becomes a camera, and the image emerges not as a decisive moment, but as an ongoing process generated through time and space. As nature and the artificial converge, perception shifts from the visual toward the bodily; within the interstices between generation and disappearance, and amid the constant flux between inside and outside, the “life” of photography does not end at the instant the shutter is released. Instead, it unfolds as a continuous, generative event. This exhibition challenges entrenched assumptions within photographic practice and seeks to expand its conceptual and experiential boundaries.