Artist Talk: Sara Wu

Join us for an artist talk with Sara Wu, presented by ssspacespace, New Taipei City, in conversation with Chus Martínez and Hyunjin Kim. The conversation opens up Sara Wu’s practice, exploring the themes that shape her work and artistic approach.

Sara Wu (b. 1994 in Taiwan) is an artist based in Taipei working across photography, sculpture, and installation. Her practice examines overlooked moments from daily life through observation and the annotation of lived experience. Her work has received awards from the Parallel Photo Platform and the Taipei Art Awards, and has been exhibited at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, the Royal Society of Sculptors in London, and the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. She recently co-founded the artist-run independent space, ss space space, with artist Sean Tseng.

Hyunjin Kim is a Seoul-based independent curator and writer. She has co-curated the 7th Gwangju Biennale (2008), served as artistic director at Incheon Art Platform and ARKO Art Center, curated the Korean Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale, and led a three-year regional program for KADIST as Regional Lead Curator for Asia.

Chus Martínez is the director of the Institute of Art Gender Nature at Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW, associate curator at the TBA21 Foundation and artistic director of the 36th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts. She is a board member of CIMAM and an advisor to several international art institutions. Martínez has organised numerous exhibitions and publications with contemporary artists. Her writings regularly appear in journals, catalogues and compilations of essays.