Based on this topic, "Zoo of Inverted Forms: The Ultimate Other for Imagining Humanity" showcases works related to the theme of animals by six contemporary artists from Taiwan and Russia: Amuse, Pei-Ying LIN, Shih-Chin WU, Teng-Yuan CHANG, Yun-Fei TOU and Marina Fomenko. The purpose of the exhibition is not about displaying the different ways the artists "interpret" animals, but to explore the artists' presentations of how mankind construct or reflect our specific systems of knowledge, religion, ethics, and aesthetics, through animals. In the age of Anthropocene, this exhibition seeks to inspire us to recognize the essential role that animals play in our lives, even in the absence of a comprehensive and thorough knowledge system about them. While we must acknowledge the limitations of our understanding of the natural world, we must also appreciate that animals have always been an indispensable reference for our survival, as well as for our imagination and definition of "human," our ideas of myth and religion, and our systems of ethics and morality.

Feng-Yi CHU