"The exhibition will be held at the Palazzo delle Prigioni from May 9 to November 22, 2026, featuring a new work by Taiwanese artist Li Yi-Fan and curated by Raphael Fonseca, curator of visual arts at Culturgest, Lisbon and Porto, Portugal. Both from a generation that witnessed the birth of internet technology, they explore the complex relationship between imagery, technology, and human experience in a dialogue that goes beyond regions and cultures."
"Originally conceived in Portuguese as Melancolia de tela, the exhibition title evolves across languages, unfolding new nuances that reflect on how screens mediate everyday life and shape the ways people perceive and experience the world. At the same time, the work responds to the theme of the Biennale Arte 2026, In Minor Keys, often associated with the melancholic atmosphere evoked by its musical metaphor."
"This exhibition presents an installation integrating video and mixed media that encompasses the entire space. It marks the first such endeavor by the Taipei Fine Arts Museum since it began hosting exhibitions at the Palazzo delle Prigioni in 1995. Large-scale customized sculptures of fragmented limbs will be arranged throughout the space, resonating with characters emerging from the video as a juxtaposition of fictional and physical sensory experiences within the space."
"The unified whole of sculpture, video, and sound invites viewers to experience, at their own pace, the emotional and cognitive dissonance and perceptual fatigue the artist evokes. The installation transforms the space into a dynamic stage at the Palazzo delle Prigioni, where the interplay of media and form shapes how viewers move through and interpret the work."
A Taipei Fine Arts Museum Collateral Event presents Screen Melancholy: Li Yi-Fan at the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. The exhibition runs from May 9 to November 22, 2026 at the Palazzo delle Prigioni and features a new work by Taiwanese artist Li Yi-Fan curated by Raphael Fonseca. The title evolves from Melancolia de tela across languages, emphasizing how screens mediate everyday life and influence how people perceive the world. The installation integrates video and mixed media across the entire space, with large-scale customized sculptures of fragmented limbs placed throughout. Sculpture, video, and sound create fictional and physical sensory juxtapositions that invite viewers to experience emotional and cognitive dissonance and perceptual fatigue at their own pace.
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