"Yearning is an existential reality, a natural consequence of being alive. In our very beings, at the deepest atomic level, we are anchored and driven by desire, longing and wishfulness. At times, we are even driven by the desire to get rid of this sentiment. It is a universal truth, a binding or divisive force, woven through every dimension and cadence of life."
"Tucked around a corner on the first floor and found in the garden below, Ivana Bašić's works draw on childhood memories of national rupture and conflict, tracking a search for hypothetical coherence and unity in the aftermath. Womb-like, alien, almost bionic, her sculptures synthesize the primordial with the cyborgian: slick, quasi-organic surfaces meet sinuous metallic limbs that read as both tentacle and pipe. Yet somehow, these extraterrestrial forms emit a sort of tenderness, a motherlike softness in their unfamiliar forms."
Yearning is framed as an existential, universal force that shapes desire, longing, and even the desire to escape those feelings. The 2025 Taipei Biennial centers that affect, gathering works by 54 artists from 35 cities to examine yearning across intimate and geopolitical scales. Ivana Bašić's womb-like, bionic sculptures channel childhood memories of national rupture while searching for hypothetical coherence. Ni Hao's upper-floor pieces offer quiet provocations that invite intimate viewing and confront fetishized imagery through sculptural gestures. Hybrid forms and varied artistic vernaculars articulate historical moments and imagine alternative modes of being in an ever-shifting world.
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