本書為王湘靈2020年於台北市立美術館所舉行的「快要降落的時候 Take Me Somewhere Nice」個展專刊，其中收錄了展覽影像作品，及藝術家於展覽期間在展場拍攝再製的影像。本書採套繩裝訂，折疊分為內外兩面，讓觀者在閱讀時除了左右翻，亦有正反、部分及全幅等不同的閱讀方式。
At the age of six, I went on a trip with my parents to a seashore. I piled up sands on the beach on my own as my parents sat and rest on a bench at my back. Fifteen minutes later, I turned back. My parents, the row of benches on the beach, and everything disappeared. Such strange memory with no reference thus strings up some parallel imaginations.
Unfolded with the experience of space-time conversion at the beach in the childhood, the fissures in the personal experience and in mind are transformed into the moving process between “dream” and “reality” via reconstruction and imagination of the places in the past events. As the world evolves and establishes different means to viewing and experience recognition, where are we exactly, the imagined reality or the realistic reality? In the event of a change in the material interface, is there a difference between “presence” and “absence”? Will the recollection accumulated in time end up a liquid dream eventually?
This album is the collection of Take Me Somewhere Nice, Hsiang-Lin Wang’s solo exhibition at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum in 2020, in which the exhibited image works as well as images recaptured and reproduced by the artist in the exhibition venue during the exhibition are collected. Take Me Somewhere Nice is a string-binding album that is folded and divided into two facets inside and outside, granting readers reading experiences not just turning leaves horizontally, but also reading invertedly, partially, and in full width.
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Home-grown Sweet Peas looking glorious next to Sweet’s “Flora Australasica; or a selection of handsome and curious plants, natives of New Holland and the South Sea Islands” (first edition, 1827-8).
It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.–Vincent van Gogh
The cool bookshop at the National Gallery’s Trade Fair Palace
Tindley and Everett, WC2N. Back to the glorious Cecil Court off Charing Cross Road for another humdinger. T&E specialises in rare 20th century books and modern firsts. What I did not know until they generously let me see the basement is that they have an expansive downstairs with four rooms of stock! if it was published in the 1900s, and you can conceive of it. It’s probably here or they can get it for you fairly rapidly. The novels, texts, periodicals and odd curiosity aside it is the history of the walls that grabs you. The Georgian, Victorian, Edwardian, heritage of a building that has survived all London and the world can throw at it for two to three (depending on who you ask,) centuries is writ large here. [Update: I’ve just found out it was an air raid shelter during the war.] The current incarnation of bookshop suits the notable environs well. If you’re chasing a rare title and don’t mind having to suitably pay for it Tindley and Everett is an excellent port of call (just don’t rush your visit; you’re in for a treat.) https://www.abebooks.co.uk/tindley-and-everett,-aba-london/2791513/sf
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