In collaboration with Fundació Joan Miró
Taiwanese video artist Hsu Che-Yu (b. 1985) is the winner of the Han Nefkens Foundation – Loop Barcelona Video Art Award Production 2020, in collaboration with Fundació Joan Miró.
Established by the Han Nefkens Foundation in collaboration with Loop Barcelona in 2018, the Han Nefkens Foundation – Loop Barcelona Video Art Production Award aims to increase contemporary artistic production in the video art field by supporting artists of Asian origin or nationality.
The jury remarks that Hsu Che-Yu “ingeniously amalgamates true tragedies of our world with technologies including animation and film to create compelling humanistic works. We wish to highlight his complex and sophisticated narrative structures as well as his subversive poetic commentary on the subject matter and we are looking forward to showing his multi-dimensional works in the future.”
Hsu Che-Yu receives USD 15,000 funding for the production of a new work which will be presented at the Fundació Joan Miró in November 2021 to coincide with Loop Barcelona 2021. Hsu Che-Yu’s work will also be presented in 2021/22 by Centre d’Art Contemporain, Genève; Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing; MOCA Taipei and ILHAM, Kuala Lumpur.
Hsu Che-Yu states: “I’m honoured to be awarded the Han Nefkens Foundation – Loop Barcelona Video Art Production Award this year. Most of my works explore the relationship between individual and collective memories from Taiwan. I’m happy these efforts find positive reactions outside my hometown and looking forward to collaborating with Han Nefkens Foundation in the coming year.”
He was unanimously selected by a judging panel chaired by Han Nefkens, Founder of the Han Nefkens Foundation, joined by Emilio Alvarez, founder LOOP Barcelona; Marko Daniel, Director Fundació Joan Miró; Andrea Bellini, Director Centre d'Art Contemporain, Genève; Rahel Joseph, Director ILHAM, Kuala Lumpur; Haeju Kim, Deputy Director Art Sonje Center, Seoul; Li Chen Loh, director MOCA Taipei; Carol Yinghua Lu, Director Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing; and Dirk Snauwaert, Director WIELS, Brussels.
The judging took part in the presence of Huai-ya Lin, researcher at MOCA Taipei; Hilde Teerlinck, General Director of the Han Nefkens Foundation and Alessandra Biscaro, coordinator of the Han Nefkens Foundation.
From across Asia, the eight shortlisted artists for the Han Nefkens Foundation – Loop Barcelona Video Art Production Award 2020 were: Mr. Basir Mahmood (Pakistan, 1985), Mr. Che-Yu Hsu (Taiwan, 1985), Ms. Chloe Yap Mun Ee (Malaysia, 1995), Ms. Hira Nabi (Pakistan, 1987), Ms. Qinmin Liu (China, 1990), Ms. Que Chi Truong (Vietnam, 1987), Mr. Sokchanlina Lim (Cambodia, 1987), and Mr. Tulapop Saenjaroen (Thailand, 1986).
The original longlist of artists was scouted by Alia Swastika (Indonesia), Chae Young Lee (South Korea), Dar-Kuen Wu (Taiwan), Diana Campbell (US), Korakrit Arunanondchai (Thailand), Leonardo Bigazzi (Italy), Meiya Cheng (Taiwan), Roopesh Sitharan (Malaysia), Thao Nguyen Phan (also recipient of the Han Nefkens Foundation — Loop Barcelona Video Art Production Award 2018, born and living in Vietnam), Xiaoyu Weng (China), and Yung Ma (China).
