Talk

Hsing-Yu Liu x Kento Terada ”How to compose our family photos"

FREE

2025.4.20: 14:00–15:30

TIME'S

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Exploring gender and family diversity through wedding photography. Through family portraits, we confront the fluidity of identity within national borders and question whether we are reconstructing the family image shaped by the state. Taiwanese artist Hsing-Yu Liu, known for "My Parents and I", and Kento Terada, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, and an artist himself, will discuss these themes while exploring the power of photography and the creative potential of installation art.

Important Notice: * Those wishing to attend the event are requested to gather at the TIME'S 1st floor reception desk 15 minutes prior to the start time.

Speakers Speakers

Liu Hsing-Yu (KYOTOGRAPHIE 2025 Artist)

Born in 1985 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Liu received his MFA degree from the National Kaohsiung Normal University.
Liu's work centered on themes of agriculture, ecology and gender equality. For Liu, photography serves as both a creative method and a participatory medium, playing a thoughtful yet playful role in engaging people with these issues. Liu was nominated for the 2018 Taipei Arts Awards and participated in the Cosmopolis #2: Rethinking the Human at the Centre Pompidou.

In the photographic installation work that he got KG＋SELECT Award 2024, The Mail Address is No Longer Valid, to inform his ancestors about the legalization of same-sex marriage in Taiwan, he dressed his father in a wedding gown and his mother in a suit, staging a wedding that blurred the line between reality and illusion. Alongside photography, Liu incorporates calligraphy and sealing as a gesture to represent the absent and to bridge the past and future.
Kento Terada (Artist, Tokyo University of the Arts Assistant Professor, Intermedia Art)

Born in Okinawa, Japan. Focusing on how societal norms related to “gender” and “birth” shape individual behavior and thought, Terada creates works based on the radical feminist perspective that “the personal is political.” Terada’s primary medium of expression is photography, which raises questions about the visualization of social structures and individual identity.