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SHIH SIAO-MO(1972-)

SHIH SIAO-MO excels in creating issue-based abstract works that delve into the realm of introspective exploration and intellectual contemplation. With a unique and non-linear expression of language, she bridges the inner monologue of the viewers, initiating a two-way philosophical dialogue. Her brush and pen embody restraint, purity, and enigma, with her works materializing through thought. Employing a narrative technique that involves multi-layered deconstruction and reconstruction, she reorganizes perceptual contexts and states of consciousness. Her works reveal contemplation and concerns about the human world, encompassing literature, science, physics, and psychology. Her creations explore rigor with a touch of emotional lyricism, thoroughly expanding the realm of contemporary abstract reality. They narrate the dynamic interplay of thoughts and consciousness within the realm of non-material existence, establishing an organic order and a non-linear narrative vocabulary for contemporary abstract painting.

Summary

2018 National monument Tswei-heng Gallery
2018 Kaohsiung Chung Cheng Cultural Center Zhigao Pavilion
2018 Pingtung Art Museum
2019 Kaohsiung Cultural Center
2020 Kaohsiung Cultural Center
2020 Pi Ruijia Thirty-two Paintings Exhibition
2020 Super Station S Roaming Poet Video Manifesto Exhibition
2021 Metaphor Philosophy – Stream of Consciousness / M Gallery
2022 Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts 
2022 Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art
2022 ART HSINCHU
2022 ART TAICHUNG
2022 Brain Fog Says / M Gallery
2022 Palazzo Albrizzi
2022 ART FORMOSA 
2022 Art Revolution Taipei
2022 ART KAOHSIUNG
2022 ART FUTURE

Free Simulation Consciousness 

” Conscious mimicry ” describes a consciousness structure experienced in the process of consciousness virtualization, in which the individual involves the perception and cognition of situations that associate stimuli, behaviors and emotions in the environment with the real world, and continuously generate various authentic conscious experiences and form representations when the state is simulated, reconstructed, and transformed.

 

The “Free Simulation Consciousness ” series of works mainly describes how human beings mimic and generate everything in the process of consciousness. The brain plays a key role in “mimicry”, receiving, decoding and processing perceptual stimuli from the virtual environment and generating corresponding conscious experiences. When sensory organs such as eyes, ears, skin, etc. receive perceptual stimuli from the virtual environment, the reception and pre-processing of visual images, sounds, touches and other information are perceived and integrated in the sensory areas of the brain, and the perceptual stimuli are also decoded and converted into neural activity patterns. These patterns are further interpreted and processed through the connection and integration between neurons to form intrinsic representations of perceptual stimuli, including linking perceptual stimuli with information related to memory, emotion, and language to generate more meaningful and contextual cognitive surfaces. The understanding of behavior and situations in the virtual environment also involves the evaluation and judgment of perceptual stimuli. As soon as the activities of the different sensory regions are integrated, more complex physiological and mental states are expanded to describe.

 

Human consciousness is a free and infinite realm. In the process of consciousness virtualization, human consciousness is able to transcend the limitations of reality and enter a state full of infinite possibilities. The freedom of consciousness is reflected in our ability to freely choose and explore different states of consciousness and experiences. In a virtual environment, we can choose to enter different virtual scenes, characters or identities and experience perceptions, cognitions and emotions that are different from reality. This freedom allows us to explore and develop all levels of consciousness autonomously, and the neuronal network of the brain plays a key role in synchronization, forming the synthesis and integration of consciousness through interlinking and interaction, and the formation and operation mechanism plays a key role in the process of generation and thus mimics the multi-level dimension of consciousness. In the virtual environment, everything is the result of being deconstructed and reconstructed.

 

“Free Simulation Consciousness ” shows a strong aesthetic tone of the image. The black series creates a mysterious atmosphere of gloomy, contemplative and philosophical projection, allowing the audience to feel the loneliness and impermanence of existence, and the suggestive image sense presents a deep existential atmosphere. White, through the use of multi-level folding light and the processing of depth structure, takes the philosophical issues and symbolic symbols of consciousness virtualization as cultural exploration, and its vague or unusual alienated vision is used to shape the meaning and metaphor of the understanding process. This visual tonality reinforces the mysterious temperament and transports the viewer into a mysterious and mysterious world, thus feeling a state of re-structure but possibly detached from the real space, thus triggering the exploration of the freedom, fragility and uncertainty of things and situations in the process of virtualizing consciousness and mimicking generation.

Free Simulation Consciousness 
2022
Acrylic on Canvas
30x30cm

Free Simulation Consciousness
2022
Acrylic on Canvas
30x30cm

Free Simulation Consciousness 
2022
Acrylic on Canvas
30x30cm

Free Simulation Consciousness 
2022
Acrylic on Canvas
30x30cm

Free Simulation Consciousness 
2022
Acrylic on Canvas
30x30cm

brain fog
2022
Acrylic on Canvas
117x91cm

       

Our brain is a wonderful organ that processes functions such as perception, thinking, and memory. “Brain fog theory” makes us think about the way the human brain works, like a window to another world. Through this window we can see the confusion of the mind and contemplate the complexity of human consciousness and perception. The fog in the work symbolizes our ambiguity about the workings of the brain, and when the brain is atomized, the abstract depiction shows the paradoxes of confusion, fear, and figuration in the mind, and the multi-layered relationship situation reveals the challenges that consciousness and perception may face. The existence of fog makes us more deeply aware of the gap between the activity inside the brain and the reality we experience, and the unpredictable variables around us make everything full of challenges and unsolved mysteries.

Fictitious Blank

Blank space highlights the space and possibilities that exist. This “negative space” focuses on the nature of truth, the nature of truth, and the limits of knowledge. To mention, the depth of existence and knowledge may be beyond our comprehension, and leaving a fictional void is a wait, or it can be a hidden.

 

In the subject of ” Fictitious Blank”, the Blank space part serves as a symbol of deconstruction, symbolizing the unknown and self-unaware level of our minds, with an interpretive sense of existence that implies all the infinite variables that exist in our internalization. Blank space often calls us to disassemble existing ideas and beliefs, so as to open the exploration of new thinking and creativity, acceptance, rejection, removal, retention, but the instantaneous process is highly cumbersome. Consciousness can transcend the limitations of the existing reality framework to reconstruct a cognition and provide a re-selected perspective of the self, which inspires us to explore the boundary between reality and fiction and our own existential forces, and always shapes our highly private experiences and cognitions, leading us to pay attention to the meaning and experience of Blank space.

 

However, deconstruction itself is not the end. It is turned on for the purpose of the next refactoring. The process of reorganization and integration can reconnect the scattered fragments, create new concepts and understandings, form their own insight opportunities, and even inadvertently reveal hidden beliefs and emotions in the unconscious, and then reconstruct the individual’s psychological structure and cognitive model, and promote the transformation and self-identity of consciousness and cognition.

 

“Fictional Blank” tells the story of the relationship between the subject and the object in the body, how to actively and passively reflect on the understanding and interpretation of events, and explain people’s inclusive and open representations full of power relations and various implicit hypothetical views. People’s gradual constructive thinking about reality, existence, and cognition, and the intention to actively jump out of the framework to give a new definition, are enough to prove that ” Blank space ” is the most intelligent wisdom of human beings, and it is also a deception of careful deliberation.

Fictitious Blank
2022
Acrylic on Canvas
30X50cm

Fictitious Blank
2022
Acrylic on Canvas
30X50cm

Fictitious Blank
2022
Acrylic on Canvas
30X50cm