The Ten Drum Sugarcoat Image Exhibition, Creating a Fantastical Realm.

The Ten Drum Cultural Village in Tainan's Rende district has been dedicated to preserving the industrial heritage of sugar factories and revitalizing the sugar factory's legacy. It regularly hosts artists from around the world, providing them with opportunities for residency, fostering exchanges and dialogues between artists and the land's past, present, and future. The aim is to allow visitors from various places to experience the local and diverse artistic beauty of Tainan.

The Cultural Village invited the Taiwanese artist Chun-Yi Chang, who has spent many years in France, for a residency. She transformed the familiar patterns of Taiwan's past candies, such as Lover's Candy, Milk Candy, Sarsi Candy, Cow Rolled Candy, and Football Chocolate, into pure visual elements of form and color. By combining these patterns with sugar boxes, she recreated a splendid space transformed by the outer layer of candies. The "Sugar Coating Project" includes two permanent exhibition pieces, "Sugar Coat #1" and "Sugar Coat #2," both being video installations that invite viewers into continuously changing sculptural worlds.

In "Sugar Coat #1," the video installation inside a giant sugar box reveals ever-changing sugar coat formations in the depths of the pitch-black space. The forms alternate between randomly kneaded shapes and vibrant color combinations, summoning various possible imaginations during a series of folds and disassemblies, ultimately returning to the familiar appearance of candies. The pitch-black sugar box, like unknown imagination, showcases the splendid and sweet aspects of candies, propelling the wheel of fantasy.

"Sugar Coat #2" uses packaging paper with remaining candy folds to create a mechanically shifting image, making the sugar coating seem as if it has returned to a conveyor belt on the production line, awaiting "packaging." The mirror space created inside the sugar box allows the lines and colors on the sugar coat to continuously disassemble, transform, and generate between the infinite reflections of the mirror. By utilizing the outer-layered steps of the sugar can, it aims to provide an aerial view of the entire interior of the sugar box, creating a fantastical world.