Winner of the second Hengshan Calligraphy Award, Yi Chun Wang begins from her everyday life with her cat and transforms the gestures of “hiding” and “seeking” into calligraphic creation. Taking “hide-and-seek” as its central idea, the exhibition invites visitors into a playful viewing experience—one in which artist, artwork, and audience search for one another through calligraphy.

Organized by the Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts (TMoFA), the Hengshan Calligraphy Award recognizes outstanding and pioneering calligraphy exhibitions. Award winners are invited to present a new exhibition at the Hengshan Calligraphy Art Center (HCAC). From May 8 to August 3, 2026, HCAC presents Hide & Seek: Yi Chun Wang Calligraphy Exhibition, an exhibition inspired by the artist’s daily life that opens up a game of self-discovery through calligraphy.

This exhibition is a milestone for both HCAC and Yi Chun Wang. It is the first time HCAC has devoted the entire building to a large-scale solo exhibition by an artist of the younger generation, and it is also Wang’s first major solo exhibition.
The exhibition originated from the second Hengshan Calligraphy Award, which honors outstanding calligraphy exhibitions through an open nomination process. Following preliminary and final rounds of review by panels of experts and scholars, Wang’s previous exhibition, Pace: Yi Chun Wang Calligraphy Exhibition, was selected as the award-winning exhibition.
TMoFA Director Lin Yung Neng notes that the Hengshan Calligraphy Award is Taiwan’s first award dedicated to calligraphy exhibitions. By encouraging innovative and experimental approaches, the award supports the development of contemporary calligraphy in Taiwan and highlights how younger artists respond to the diverse directions and expanding possibilities of calligraphy today.

For this large-scale solo exhibition, Yi Chun Wang extends the ideas explored in Pace into the intimate relationship between calligraphy and her daily life with her cat. The exhibition makes extensive use of immersive spatial design, recreating the atmosphere in which the artist finds inspiration.
Working with the teams of Yilan Fanghua and Urayama, Wang develops the concept of combining calligraphy with landscape. A site-specific plant installation has been created in the corridor leading to the main exhibition space, allowing the works and the landscape to echo one another. In another area, a platform has been installed beside a large glass window, using the outdoor scenery as a borrowed view. Visitors are invited to pause, sit, and experience the atmosphere created between calligraphy, space, and the surrounding environment.
Through this immersive setting, the curatorial team hopes to encourage visitors to slow down, step away from the pace of contemporary life, and enter the artist’s everyday world of calligraphic inspiration with a quieter state of mind.

Everyday life is an important source of Yi Chun Wang’s creative ideas, and her cat is an inseparable part of that life. For this exhibition, Wang also collaborates with Spring Pool Glass, drawing inspiration from cat litter and calligraphy to create a site-specific installation that reflects small fragments of her daily routine.
The exhibition also features Wang’s year-long project The Meow Project, presented through video and installation. Inspired by the meow of her cat Taro, the project records the artist’s daily practice of writing the single Chinese character 喵—“meow”—on various found materials. Also on view is Meow Tofu, a cat-bed-shaped installation created by the Sleepy Tofu team, where visitors can curl up like a cat and enter a world accompanied by repeated images and sounds of “meow.”

For Yi Chun Wang, calligraphy is a process of selecting and giving form to inner speech. Through brush and ink, words from within are transformed into visible traces.
In this exhibition, Wang challenges herself with large-scale works that exceed the size of her own body, as if she were “hiding behind” the work. Through careful planning and precise brushwork, she constructs the direction and rhythm of each stroke. The scale of the works turns writing into a dynamic bodily language, revealing the artist’s steps, gestures, and movement through ink—as if each work were a solo performance.
The texts within the works include reflections on the creative process and words of self-encouragement. Through Wang’s brushwork, these private thoughts are brought before the viewer. The exhibition also includes the calligraphic sculpture Yuzzy, in which lines become physical forms and blank spaces become openings in space, creating a new dimension of writing.
The final section of the exhibition, titled Against the Light, presents smaller calligraphic works with humorous and candid phrases that speak directly to the viewer. Here, writing becomes a way of facing one’s inner self and finding shelter within calligraphy. Between hiding and not hiding, the artist asks how one might choose for oneself—and how one might rethink the direction of life.
 

Hide & Seek: Yi Chun Wang Calligraphy Exhibition seeks to move beyond conventional impressions of calligraphy. The exhibition brings together classical texts, modern poetry, and everyday language, placing them within a contemporary spatial environment. Featuring 65 works and sets created in recent years, the exhibition includes both intimate small-scale pieces and large-format works that challenge the artist’s physical strength, control, and refinement of line.
Through the Hengshan Calligraphy Award, HCAC will continue to support curatorial practices and artistic expressions that bring pioneering and contemporary perspectives to calligraphy. As a platform for calligraphic art, HCAC aims to open new conversations, expand the possibilities of calligraphy in exhibition-making, and encourage broader reflection on the role of calligraphy in today’s art world.

Hide & Seek: Yi Chun Wang Calligraphy Exhibition is on view at Hengshan Calligraphy Art Center from Friday, May 8, to Monday, August 3, 2026.
For more information, please visit the exhibition page.