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Flow • Spread • Slow - SLOHAS in Craft
In 2025, as the National Taiwan Craft Research and Development Institute enters its 71st year, this exhibition embraces “SLOHAS Living” as its central vision—highlighting craft as a joyful rhythm that flows gently, woven into the art of living. Introducing the attitude of SLOW living and LOHAS (Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability), it frames craft as a medium for responding to future social challenges and cultural practice. More than a lifestyle, it is a heartfelt movement—one that begins with sensory experience, inspires social action, and ultimately leads to cultural resonance. Structured through the trilogy of Flow, Spread, and Slow, the exhibition echoes six core values: Simplicity, Lifestyle, Originality, Health, Aesthetics, and Sustainability. From the sensory awakening of Flow, through the expanding practice of Spread, to the co-created contemplation of Slow, the exhibition spreads out how craft moves from individual perception to collective creation, then ultimately returning to a deeper reflection on daily rhythms. This journey mirrors a three-stage progression—from ideals, to attitudes, to styles—unfolding as an active composition for the future of craft and forming a holistic philosophy of SLOHAS in Craft. No longer just a presentation of static objects, this exhibition becomes a dynamic platform—integrating curation, advocacy, and practice, as three main leading directions. It stimulates all five senses, fosters reflection and participation, and outlines a portrait of contemporary Taiwanese craft in transformation. —from traditional craftsmanship to everyday practice and cultural movement. It affirms SLOHAS Living lifestyle as a kind and well cycle of sustainability and kindness—from S to S, infinite and alive.
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IMEDIA
Inheriting and Passing on the Essences of Life- Ling-Liang Jian and Qiong-Zhu Feng's Life of Dye
The creators of dyeing and weaving, Ling-Liang Jian and Qiong-Zhu Feng, convey the truth of nature with their unique craft materials, techniques, and attitude towards life.
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The Set of Three Stacked Sweet Boxes-Plum
Master Yamanaka Tadasu was not only an artist but also an educator who emphasized aesthetic education through observation and taught his students the techniques of crafting wood-core lacquerware. This set of three stacked sweet boxes, inspired by the 'Three Friends of Winter' – pine, bamboo, and plum – was created by Yamanaka Ko after his return to Japan following the war, for entry into a Japanese competition. While unsigned on the bottom, the wooden box housing the three pieces bears his handwritten ink signature. The 'Pine' box is the smallest, featuring stylized pine needles in a rhombic geometric pattern. On the raised surface of takamaki-e (high relief lacquer), the subtle variations of the pine needles are rendered using the metallic sheen of hirame fun (flat gold/silver powder) and silver powder, while the trunk is depicted in a more realistic style. The 'Bamboo' box is medium-sized, larger than the pine but smaller than the plum. It utilizes hirame fun and silver powder to depict the sheen on delicate bamboo leaves, with fine veins exquisitely outlined on the takamaki-e. The largest 'Plum' box, which can hold the bamboo and pine boxes, employs the luster of silver powder and kin-hirame fun (flat gold powder) to fully express both the budding blossoms and the fully bloomed, multi-petaled plum flowers.