EVENT & EXHIBITION
RAY LC Residency Exhibition
w.a.t.e.r｜twice..told
Venue｜Tzu-Lung Artist House · TESA Creative Center
Exhibition Dates｜January 10–11, 2026
Opening Tea Gathering｜Saturday, January 10, 14:00–16:30 (Free Admission)
In mid-December 2025, artist RAY LC arrived at Tzu-Lung Artist House for a one-month residency. This exhibition presents the outcomes of his creative exploration during this period.
w.a.t.e.r｜twice..told uses water as a double narrative through which to look at the relationship between humans and nature. Water is always within us and around us; humans are accustomed to treating it as a resource to be used, packaged, and controlled, while overlooking water as an environmental structure in itself, and as an unstoppable force of nature. Even as human desire, pollution, and waste are poured into it, water continues to respond in its own rhythm and keeps flowing.
Through video, sculpture, and photography, the exhibition presents two states of water:
(1) water as it is used, controlled, and burdened with human desires and projections;
(2) water as a quiet, unconditional, and enduring presence.
The works unfold between tension and acceptance, possession and disorder, revealing water as a force that always exceeds human understanding and control.
RAY LC’s practice moves across art, technology, and research, focusing on how humans adapt, imagine, and re-interpret themselves under different technological conditions. In this exhibition, water becomes a medium through which to reconsider the place of human behavior within nature, inviting viewers to once again listen to that continuously flowing, yet often overlooked, voice.
👉 Learn more about RAY LC’s work:
Instagram: @recfreq @studiofornarrativespaces
https://recfro.github.io/
Lei Cheok Mei Residency Exhibition｜ The Shape of Memory
Opening Tea Gathering｜Nov 30, 2025 (Sun) 14:00–16:30 — free entry.
Exhibition Dates｜Nov 30–Dec 6, 2025 — visits by reservation on Thu & Sat
Opening Hours｜14:00–17:00
Venue｜TESA Creative Center
In November 2025, Macao-born filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist Lei Cheok Mei completed a one-month residency at TESA Creative Center (Tzu-Lung Artist House) on Taiwan’s North Coast. Immersed in the rhythms of the sea and forest, she developed a new body of sculptural installations that explore how memory can take form through space, material, and light.
Her exhibition, The Shape of Memory, reveals an intimate dialogue between site, emotion, and recollection—transforming found objects and traces of daily life into poetic, tactile narratives.
Blending documentary sensibility with abstraction, Lei’s practice bridges moving image, community engagement, and experimental storytelling. Her works question how memory, identity, and belonging are shaped by shifting environments, inviting visitors to enter a contemplative space where recollection and imagination intertwine.
👉 Learn more about Lei Cheok Mei’s work:
Instagram: @legostonlei
Thomas Triebe-Pay Residency Exhibition｜Form and Discovery
Opening Tea Gathering｜October 25 (Sat) 14:00–17:00
Exhibition Dates｜October 25–26, 2025
Opening Hours｜14:00–17:00
Venue｜TESA Creative Center
Admission｜Free Entry
Canadian artist Thomas Triebe-Pay explores the tension between simplicity and complexity in his sculptural practice. A graduate of the University of Guelph, where he specialized in sculpture, he combines intuitive craftsmanship with formal training, working across materials such as metal, wood, concrete, plastic, and paper. By recontextualizing everyday objects, he transforms the familiar into something unexpected and thought-provoking.
During his residency at TESA, Thomas has focused on experimental sculpture using mixed media and paper. Through intuition and material discovery, he creates abstract, tactile forms that embody transformation and expression. Immersed in the tranquility of nature, he found space to slow down, observe, and allow the landscape’s rhythm to shape his creative process. The resulting works reflect not only material transformation but also a meditation on the act of making itself—where nature and form merge into quiet dialogue.
👉 Learn more about Thomas’s work:Website: www.thomastriebepay.com
Instagram: @ttriebepay
2025 North Coast Formosa Art Festival Environmental Art Project
Since 2019, TESA has been rooted in Baishawan on Taiwan’s North Coast, weaving art and nature together.
In 2025, we welcome Dancecology with the theme “The Flowing Body”. Beginning from the drifting journey of wood, the project reflects the cycles of interaction and renewal between humans and nature.
Guided by choreographer Hsiao-Yin Peng, the eco-dance workshops invite us to sense plants, rocks, the ocean, and wind through our own bodies. Meanwhile, installation artist Yu-Hung Peng (Chi-Fu) transforms driftwood into wearable forms, sparking a dialogue between body and wood, mountain and sea.
Ecological Dance Creation: Hsiao-Yin Peng
Driftwood Installation: Yu-Hung Peng (Chi-Fu)
Performers: Jun-Ming Peng, Kai-Wen Chuang
Together, we will follow the dancers, listening to the call of driftwood, imagining the currents of mountains and seas flowing between waves and wood. The afternoon continues with artist sharing, dialogue, and a warm tea gathering—opening many perspectives on the spirit of environmental art.
