Artwork Details
Artist
Michelle Lee
Title
Travel Album (Taipei)
Year
2022
Medium
Collotype prints on wooden panel
Dimensions
30.5 × 80.5 × 4.5cm
Status
Available
Price
HK$25,000-50,000
Info
Postcards appear as a static image that can be circulated, using a piece of card to facilitate the flow of information. The choice of images reveals a kind of gaze, capturing representative objects and scenery of a certain era. The historic landmarks will eventually disappear and can only be rediscovered in another form. I found two Ehagaki postcards presenting the architecture of the Library of the Governor-General of Taiwan printed during the Japanese colonial period in Taiwan, both of which were printed in collotype. I therefore particularly want to document the sites of my field research in Taiwan with the same technique. This travel album shows my vision as a traveller, and how I traced back to the place where the books in the Library of the Governor-General of Taiwan were circulated. One of the locations on the postcard is the former site of the Grand Tianhou Temple of Taipei, which was demolished due to the City Improvement Plan, and is now the National Taiwan Museum. Another site is the former site of the Library of the Governor-General of Taiwan (now Boai Building). I mailed these two postcards from Taiwan to the Karin Weber Gallery, so that the postcards have their own path like mine.