Familiar/Unfamiliar Places

This project is a part of the Zhongshan Hao Rong Yi Street Art Project in an old district in Taipei. In this project, I took photos of commercial and public spaces in the three neighborhoods including Yuan Shan Li , Ching Guang Li, and Heng An Li. This area comprised by these three neighborhoods has an exotic atmosphere of its own. There are different groups of people living in this area including Taiwanese, Filipinos, and people from other countries, but they rarely communicate/interact with each other. For local people, here might be a place he/she is familiar with, but it could be also an unfamiliar/vague place. A Taiwanese resident of this place might have been living here for two decades but never entered the Philippine restaurant. Through photography and exhibition, this project tries to show local people different perspectives to see the streets. Through connecting local people to the places they’re familiar, I hope to trigger their curiosity to places they haven’t been to.

熟悉/不熟悉的所在

我很喜歡台北市的不同社區，每個地方呈現自己的特色和氛圍；其中這塊由圓山里、晴光里、恆安里形成的區域有著濃厚的異國文化，顯得特別迷人。然而，雖有許多不同的族群於此生活，在彼此之間卻似乎少有互動，遑論進入各自的空間裡交流、活動和消費，對於某個居民來說，他可能在這裡住了很久，但對於他家附近的許多空間卻不甚熟悉或者印象模糊。這個計畫屬於中山好融異街區藝術計畫，拍攝了有特色的公共／消費空間、以及在此生活的人們，希望藉由觀看這些照片，能夠讓社區民眾回憶起他們的在地經驗，或是對於陌生的空間產生好奇心，進而開始去認識這個地方。