{"id":1766,"date":"2025-04-18T21:42:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T13:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/couldbe.tw\/clients\/HsiehChun-Te\/?page_id=1766"},"modified":"2026-06-08T09:15:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T01:15:43","slug":"comments","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1766\" data-postid=\"1766\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1766 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_3mc9811 tb_first tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_middle tb_col_count_2 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-2 tb_d2m0811 first\">\n                    <!-- module image pro -->\n<div  class=\"module module-pro-image tb_pmwc811 filter-sepia effect-zoomout fullwidth_image  tf_textc   entrance-effect-fadeIn\" data-lazy=\"1\" data-entrance-effect=\"fadeIn\" data-exit-effect=\"fadeOut\" >\n\t\n    <div class=\"image-pro-wrap tf_rel tf_overflow tf_inline_b\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"image-pro-flip-box-wrap tf_rel tf_w tf_overflow\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"image-pro-flip-box tf_rel\">\n\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/f01-680x580.jpg\" width=\"680\" height=\"580\" class=\"wp-post-image wp-image-1924\" title=\"f01\" alt=\"f01\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n    <\/div><!-- .image-pro-wrap -->\n\n\t\n\t\n\t<\/div><!-- \/module image pro -->        <\/div>\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-2 tb_dc8y811 last\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_j780811    wow\" data-tf-animation=\"fadeInRight\" data-tf-animation_delay=\".6\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h1>Comments<\/h1>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_rm8e811    wow\" data-tf-animation=\"fadeIn\" data-tf-animation_delay=\".1\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h4>\u00b7 Photo <\/h4>\n<h4>\u00b7 Movie<\/h4>\n<h4>\u00b7 Exhibition<\/h4>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                        <div  id=\"press-2\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_ufz8381 tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col-full tb_d53g381 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_8ua9381   \" data-lazy=\"1\" data-lax-scale=\"(vh*0.89) 1,(vh*0.26) 1.15\" data-box-position=\"0% 47.5%\" data-lax=\"true\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>ten-ka<\/h2>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_subrow themify_builder_sub_row tf_w col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tb_ffnu381\">\n                <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column col-full tb_pz5x381 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_gv1r381   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <p class=\"s3\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span class=\"s4\">by Dominique Pa\u00efni<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In a previous series of <i>photographic paintings<\/i> entitled <i>Raw<\/i>, Hsieh Chun-Te staged bodies hindered, torn, crucified in the prospect of maintaining and recording a memory. In these large black and white images, this memory of the fundamental cruelty of insular identity (Taiwan) and of the erotic violence released by certain religious rituals made for an undertaking equivalent to a kind of <i>painting of history<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The <i>Tenky<\/i> series gives a generic title to a new exhibition that turns away from the ambition of History. While keeping borrowing hybrid references from Western mythologies (Salome and Holofernes&#8230;) and an Oriental conception of the world, greater emphasis is now given to the planet&#8217;s tragic environmental destiny and to the cataclysms that threaten it -including, especially, those having man as its origin. From this mythological and philosophical register, Hsieh draws the figuration of his apocalyptic haunting, making the hypothesis that its fate is programmed by an irrebuttable cultural unconscious.<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The <i>Raw<\/i> series used the variations of the photographic point to organize the elements of the representation into a hierarchy. Beyond the contours of the qualities of gray, the intermittence of the blurred and the clear-cut were laying down a perspective that&#8217;s as moral as it is spatial.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The <i>Tenky<\/i> series makes use of another figurative bias. Hsieh chooses from reality materials that will compete in the picture: the puffiness of the clouds and the oily flatness of the water, the reflection from a lake&#8217;s surface and the opacity of the rocks, the landscape devoid of any presence and the solitude of an animal, the calcined tree bark and the luminous epidermis of the exposed bodies&#8230; This goes to show the wrong track towards which Hsieh directs the interpretation of his images. The strength of its figuration, that sometimes confines to indecency and suggests a fascination with the &#8220;playful cruelty&#8221; of a Georges Bataille, is actually masking a formalist project whose opposition of materials and tensions between close patterns, according to the principles of oneiric collage, denotes a secret desire for abstraction. The latter is <i>fought<\/i> and denied to the extent of the lush and delirious composition of the images, but betrayed by the concerted alternating of the accentuated verticality and horizontality of their formats.<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The recourse to color does not detract from the obsessions of an artist for whom <i>the disasters of war<\/i> by Goya became, to him, the disasters of progress and indifference towards the natural fate of the world. Also, color does suit incendiary terror even better. If contemplation of the planet in peril favors mineral reliefs and endless stretches of lakes, Hsieh aspires to the shelter of taking flight and hopes for the power of images to provide its vision by metamorphosing the rock&#8217;s heaviness into an evanescence of clouds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">(<i>Translator: Patrick-Guy Desjardins)<\/i><\/span><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                        <div  id=\"press-2-2-2-2\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_fmqf267 tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col-full tb_8wh1267 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_y1f6898   \" data-lazy=\"1\" data-lax-scale=\"(vh*0.89) 1,(vh*0.26) 1.15\" data-box-position=\"0% 47.5%\" data-lax=\"true\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>Exhibition\/Press<\/h2>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_subrow themify_builder_sub_row tf_w col_align_top tb_col_count_3 tb_orm6267\">\n                <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column col3-1 tb_6nml267 first\">\n                    <!-- module image -->\n<div  class=\"module module-image tb_c2nv267 image-top drop-shadow bordered  auto_fullwidth tf_mw wow\" data-tf-animation=\"fadeIn\" data-tf-animation_delay=\".5\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div class=\"image-wrap tf_rel tf_mw\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/\u5a01\u5c3c\u65af\u96d9\u5e74\u5c55\u5df4\u9ece\u8cbb\u52a0\u6d1b\u65e5\u5831-660x1024-359x557.jpg\" width=\"359\" height=\"557\" class=\"wp-post-image wp-image-1929\" title=\"Venise\" alt=\"Elements de recherche: LE FESTIN DU CHUN-TE: exposition de Hsieh Chun-TE, du 01\/06 au 10\/10\/11, en parall\u00e8le de la 54\u00e8me Exposition Internationale d&#039;Art de la Biennale de Venise (Italie), toutes citations\" srcset=\"https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/\u5a01\u5c3c\u65af\u96d9\u5e74\u5c55\u5df4\u9ece\u8cbb\u52a0\u6d1b\u65e5\u5831-660x1024-359x557.jpg 359w, https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/\u5a01\u5c3c\u65af\u96d9\u5e74\u5c55\u5df4\u9ece\u8cbb\u52a0\u6d1b\u65e5\u5831-258x400.jpg 258w, https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/\u5a01\u5c3c\u65af\u96d9\u5e74\u5c55\u5df4\u9ece\u8cbb\u52a0\u6d1b\u65e5\u5831-660x1024.jpg 660w, https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/\u5a01\u5c3c\u65af\u96d9\u5e74\u5c55\u5df4\u9ece\u8cbb\u52a0\u6d1b\u65e5\u5831-768x1192.jpg 768w, https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/\u5a01\u5c3c\u65af\u96d9\u5e74\u5c55\u5df4\u9ece\u8cbb\u52a0\u6d1b\u65e5\u5831-990x1536.jpg 990w, https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/\u5a01\u5c3c\u65af\u96d9\u5e74\u5c55\u5df4\u9ece\u8cbb\u52a0\u6d1b\u65e5\u5831.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px\" \/>    \n        <\/div>\n    <!-- \/image-wrap -->\n    \n        <div class=\"image-content\">\n                    <h3 class=\"image-title\">\n                                    Venise                            <\/h3>\n                        <div class=\"image-caption tb_text_wrap\">\n            Elements de recherche: LE FESTIN DU CHUN-TE: exposition de Hsieh Chun-TE, du 01\/06 au 10\/10\/11, en parall\u00e8le de la 54\u00e8me Exposition Internationale d&#8217;Art de la Biennale de Venise (Italie), toutes citations        <\/div>\n        <!-- \/image-caption -->\n            <\/div>\n    <!-- \/image-content -->\n        <\/div>\n<!-- \/module image -->        <\/div>\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column col3-1 tb_acwa267\">\n                    <!-- module image -->\n<div  class=\"module module-image tb_gw2n267 image-top drop-shadow bordered  auto_fullwidth tf_mw wow\" data-tf-animation=\"fadeIn\" data-tf-animation_delay=\".7\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div class=\"image-wrap tf_rel tf_mw\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/\u5a01\u5c3c\u65af\u96d9\u5e74\u5c55\u6cd5\u570b\u89e3\u653e\u5831\uff09\u6cd5\u658701_-660x1024-359x557.jpg\" width=\"359\" height=\"557\" class=\"wp-post-image wp-image-1277\" title=\"Noir festin \u00e0 Venise\" alt=\"Noir festin \u00e0 Venise\nPar Vincent Noce, envoy\u00e9 sp\u00e9cial \u00e0 Venise\nLe grand cuisinier et photographe ta\u00efwanais, Hsieh Chun-Te, r\u00e9alise deux fois par jour une des performances les plus \u00e9tonnantes qu&#039;ait jamais produites la Biennale.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/\u5a01\u5c3c\u65af\u96d9\u5e74\u5c55\u6cd5\u570b\u89e3\u653e\u5831\uff09\u6cd5\u658701_-660x1024-359x557.jpg 359w, https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/\u5a01\u5c3c\u65af\u96d9\u5e74\u5c55\u6cd5\u570b\u89e3\u653e\u5831\uff09\u6cd5\u658701_-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/\u5a01\u5c3c\u65af\u96d9\u5e74\u5c55\u6cd5\u570b\u89e3\u653e\u5831\uff09\u6cd5\u658701_-660x1024.jpg 660w, https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/\u5a01\u5c3c\u65af\u96d9\u5e74\u5c55\u6cd5\u570b\u89e3\u653e\u5831\uff09\u6cd5\u658701_-768x1192.jpg 768w, https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/\u5a01\u5c3c\u65af\u96d9\u5e74\u5c55\u6cd5\u570b\u89e3\u653e\u5831\uff09\u6cd5\u658701_-990x1536.jpg 990w, https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/\u5a01\u5c3c\u65af\u96d9\u5e74\u5c55\u6cd5\u570b\u89e3\u653e\u5831\uff09\u6cd5\u658701_.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px\" \/>    \n        <\/div>\n    <!-- \/image-wrap -->\n    \n        <div class=\"image-content\">\n                    <h3 class=\"image-title\">\n                                    Noir festin \u00e0 Venise                            <\/h3>\n                        <div class=\"image-caption tb_text_wrap\">\n            Noir festin \u00e0 Venise\nPar Vincent Noce, envoy\u00e9 sp\u00e9cial \u00e0 Venise\nLe grand cuisinier et photographe ta\u00efwanais, Hsieh Chun-Te, r\u00e9alise deux fois par jour une des performances les plus \u00e9tonnantes qu&#8217;ait jamais produites la Biennale.        <\/div>\n        <!-- \/image-caption -->\n            <\/div>\n    <!-- \/image-content -->\n        <\/div>\n<!-- \/module image -->        <\/div>\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column col3-1 tb_m73t267 last\">\n                    <!-- module image -->\n<div  class=\"module module-image tb_ygxg267 image-top drop-shadow bordered  auto_fullwidth tf_mw wow\" data-tf-animation=\"fadeIn\" data-tf-animation_delay=\"1\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div class=\"image-wrap tf_rel tf_mw\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/\u5a01\u5c3c\u65af\u96d9\u5e74\u5c55\u8a55-659x1024-359x557.jpg\" width=\"359\" height=\"557\" class=\"wp-post-image wp-image-1302\" title=\"Dominique Pa\u00efni\" alt=\"What struck me when I first saw Hsieh Chun-Te\u2019s photographs was the atmosphere, the sense of a gathering storm that pervaded many of them. As if Hsieh was representing a postlapsarian world.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/\u5a01\u5c3c\u65af\u96d9\u5e74\u5c55\u8a55-659x1024-359x557.jpg 359w, https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/\u5a01\u5c3c\u65af\u96d9\u5e74\u5c55\u8a55-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/\u5a01\u5c3c\u65af\u96d9\u5e74\u5c55\u8a55-659x1024.jpg 659w, https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/\u5a01\u5c3c\u65af\u96d9\u5e74\u5c55\u8a55.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px\" \/>    \n        <\/div>\n    <!-- \/image-wrap -->\n    \n        <div class=\"image-content\">\n                    <h3 class=\"image-title\">\n                                    Dominique Pa\u00efni                            <\/h3>\n                        <div class=\"image-caption tb_text_wrap\">\n            What struck me when I first saw Hsieh Chun-Te\u2019s photographs was the atmosphere, the sense of a gathering storm that pervaded many of them. As if Hsieh was representing a postlapsarian world.        <\/div>\n        <!-- \/image-caption -->\n            <\/div>\n    <!-- \/image-content -->\n        <\/div>\n<!-- \/module image -->        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_iklq902 tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col-full tb_m44y903 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_q82q817    hide-mobile\" data-lazy=\"1\" data-lax-scale=\"(vh*0.89) 1,(vh*0.26) 1.15\" data-box-position=\"0% 47.5%\" data-lax=\"true\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>Exhibition\/Comments<\/h2>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module 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In these large black and white images, this memory of the fundamental cruelty of insular identity (Taiwan) and of the erotic violence released by certain religious rituals made for an undertaking equivalent to a kind of <i>painting of history<\/i>.<\/p> <p>The <i>Tenky<\/i> series gives a generic title to a new exhibition that turns away from the ambition of History. While keeping borrowing hybrid references from Western mythologies (Salome and Holofernes...) and an Oriental conception of the world, greater emphasis is now given to the planet's tragic environmental destiny and to the cataclysms that threaten it -including, especially, those having man as its origin. From this mythological and philosophical register, Hsieh draws the figuration of his apocalyptic haunting, making the hypothesis that its fate is programmed by an irrebuttable cultural unconscious.<br>The <i>Raw<\/i> series used the variations of the photographic point to organize the elements of the representation into a hierarchy. Beyond the contours of the qualities of gray, the intermittence of the blurred and the clear-cut were laying down a perspective that's as moral as it is spatial.<\/p> <p>The <i>Tenky<\/i> series makes use of another figurative bias. Hsieh chooses from reality materials that will compete in the picture: the puffiness of the clouds and the oily flatness of the water, the reflection from a lake's surface and the opacity of the rocks, the landscape devoid of any presence and the solitude of an animal, the calcined tree bark and the luminous epidermis of the exposed bodies... This goes to show the wrong track towards which Hsieh directs the interpretation of his images. The strength of its figuration, that sometimes confines to indecency and suggests a fascination with the \"playful cruelty\" of a Georges Bataille, is actually masking a formalist project whose opposition of materials and tensions between close patterns, according to the principles of oneiric collage, denotes a secret desire for abstraction. The latter is <i>fought<\/i> and denied to the extent of the lush and delirious composition of the images, but betrayed by the concerted alternating of the accentuated verticality and horizontality of their formats.<br>The recourse to color does not detract from the obsessions of an artist for whom <i>the disasters of war<\/i> by Goya became, to him, the disasters of progress and indifference towards the natural fate of the world. Also, color does suit incendiary terror even better. If contemplation of the planet in peril favors mineral reliefs and endless stretches of lakes, Hsieh aspires to the shelter of taking flight and hopes for the power of images to provide its vision by metamorphosing the rock's heaviness into an evanescence of clouds.<\/p> <p>(<i>Translator: Patrick-Guy Desjardins)<\/i><\/p>\n<h2>Exhibition\/Press<\/h2>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/\u5a01\u5c3c\u65af\u96d9\u5e74\u5c55\u5df4\u9ece\u8cbb\u52a0\u6d1b\u65e5\u5831-660x1024-359x557.jpg\" width=\"359\" height=\"557\" title=\"Venise\" alt=\"Elements de recherche: LE FESTIN DU CHUN-TE: exposition de Hsieh Chun-TE, du 01\/06 au 10\/10\/11, en parall\u00e8le de la 54\u00e8me Exposition Internationale d&#039;Art de la Biennale de Venise (Italie), toutes citations\" srcset=\"https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/\u5a01\u5c3c\u65af\u96d9\u5e74\u5c55\u5df4\u9ece\u8cbb\u52a0\u6d1b\u65e5\u5831-660x1024-359x557.jpg 359w, https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/\u5a01\u5c3c\u65af\u96d9\u5e74\u5c55\u5df4\u9ece\u8cbb\u52a0\u6d1b\u65e5\u5831-258x400.jpg 258w, https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/\u5a01\u5c3c\u65af\u96d9\u5e74\u5c55\u5df4\u9ece\u8cbb\u52a0\u6d1b\u65e5\u5831-660x1024.jpg 660w, https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/\u5a01\u5c3c\u65af\u96d9\u5e74\u5c55\u5df4\u9ece\u8cbb\u52a0\u6d1b\u65e5\u5831-768x1192.jpg 768w, https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/\u5a01\u5c3c\u65af\u96d9\u5e74\u5c55\u5df4\u9ece\u8cbb\u52a0\u6d1b\u65e5\u5831-990x1536.jpg 990w, https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/\u5a01\u5c3c\u65af\u96d9\u5e74\u5c55\u5df4\u9ece\u8cbb\u52a0\u6d1b\u65e5\u5831.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px\" \/> <h3> Venise <\/h3> Elements de recherche: LE FESTIN DU CHUN-TE: exposition de Hsieh Chun-TE, du 01\/06 au 10\/10\/11, en parall\u00e8le de la 54\u00e8me Exposition Internationale d'Art de la Biennale de Venise (Italie), toutes citations\n<img src=\"https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/\u5a01\u5c3c\u65af\u96d9\u5e74\u5c55\u6cd5\u570b\u89e3\u653e\u5831\uff09\u6cd5\u658701_-660x1024-359x557.jpg\" width=\"359\" height=\"557\" title=\"Noir festin \u00e0 Venise\" alt=\"Noir festin \u00e0 Venise Par Vincent Noce, envoy\u00e9 sp\u00e9cial \u00e0 Venise Le grand cuisinier et photographe ta\u00efwanais, Hsieh Chun-Te, r\u00e9alise deux fois par jour une des performances les plus \u00e9tonnantes qu&#039;ait jamais produites la Biennale.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/\u5a01\u5c3c\u65af\u96d9\u5e74\u5c55\u6cd5\u570b\u89e3\u653e\u5831\uff09\u6cd5\u658701_-660x1024-359x557.jpg 359w, https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/\u5a01\u5c3c\u65af\u96d9\u5e74\u5c55\u6cd5\u570b\u89e3\u653e\u5831\uff09\u6cd5\u658701_-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/\u5a01\u5c3c\u65af\u96d9\u5e74\u5c55\u6cd5\u570b\u89e3\u653e\u5831\uff09\u6cd5\u658701_-660x1024.jpg 660w, https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/\u5a01\u5c3c\u65af\u96d9\u5e74\u5c55\u6cd5\u570b\u89e3\u653e\u5831\uff09\u6cd5\u658701_-768x1192.jpg 768w, https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/\u5a01\u5c3c\u65af\u96d9\u5e74\u5c55\u6cd5\u570b\u89e3\u653e\u5831\uff09\u6cd5\u658701_-990x1536.jpg 990w, https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/\u5a01\u5c3c\u65af\u96d9\u5e74\u5c55\u6cd5\u570b\u89e3\u653e\u5831\uff09\u6cd5\u658701_.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px\" \/> <h3> Noir festin \u00e0 Venise <\/h3> Noir festin \u00e0 Venise Par Vincent Noce, envoy\u00e9 sp\u00e9cial \u00e0 Venise Le grand cuisinier et photographe ta\u00efwanais, Hsieh Chun-Te, r\u00e9alise deux fois par jour une des performances les plus \u00e9tonnantes qu'ait jamais produites la Biennale.\n<img src=\"https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/\u5a01\u5c3c\u65af\u96d9\u5e74\u5c55\u8a55-659x1024-359x557.jpg\" width=\"359\" height=\"557\" title=\"Dominique Pa\u00efni\" alt=\"What struck me when I first saw Hsieh Chun-Te\u2019s photographs was the atmosphere, the sense of a gathering storm that pervaded many of them. As if Hsieh was representing a postlapsarian world.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/\u5a01\u5c3c\u65af\u96d9\u5e74\u5c55\u8a55-659x1024-359x557.jpg 359w, https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/\u5a01\u5c3c\u65af\u96d9\u5e74\u5c55\u8a55-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/\u5a01\u5c3c\u65af\u96d9\u5e74\u5c55\u8a55-659x1024.jpg 659w, https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/\u5a01\u5c3c\u65af\u96d9\u5e74\u5c55\u8a55.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px\" \/> <h3> Dominique Pa\u00efni <\/h3> What struck me when I first saw Hsieh Chun-Te\u2019s photographs was the atmosphere, the sense of a gathering storm that pervaded many of them. As if Hsieh was representing a postlapsarian world.\n<h2>Exhibition\/Comments<\/h2>\n<h2>Exhibition \/<br>Comments<\/h2>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/comment-the-other-is-just-an-other\/\"> <img src=\"https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/02-1024x768-500x320.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"320\" title=\"02\" alt=\"Monique Sicard in Taiwan\"> <\/a> Monique Sicard in Taiwan\n<a href=\"https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/comment-on-angels\/\"> <img src=\"https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/b08-1024x575-500x320.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"320\" title=\"b08\" alt=\"On Angels\"> <\/a> On Angels\n<a href=\"https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/comment-creating-a-parallel-universe\/\"> <img src=\"https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/40-1024x563-500x320.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"320\" title=\"40\" alt=\"Creating a Parallel Universe\"> <\/a> Creating a Parallel Universe\n<a href=\"https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/comment-wandering-through-the-parallel-universe\/\"> <img src=\"https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/b14-1024x570-500x320.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"320\" title=\"Exhibition\" alt=\"Wandering Through the Parallel Universe\"> <\/a> Wandering Through the Parallel Universe\n<a href=\"https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/comment-the-playful-cruelty-of-hsieh-chun-te\/\"> <img src=\"https:\/\/01x10.tw\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/4.-Gravure-Grand-fait-darmes-Avec-des-morts-de-Francisco-de-Goya-1810-1820-15.5-cm-x-20.5-cm-500x320.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"320\" title=\"4. 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