Phuan thai meng biography of rory

CURATED by Patrice Chou, Phuan Thai Meng’s exhibition at MOCA, Taipei, is one example of how a true artist works.

‘Liminality – Route of Return’ pools curatorial praxis, exhibition and workshop, it investigates the connections between people and places in contrasting geopolitical ideas. 

This particular exhibition materialised from Thai Meng’s deeply personal experience from travelling to and fro between Malaysia and Taiwan.

His undertaking is for one purpose: to reconsider the convoluted appearances and orientation of extremities between “the outside in the local” and “the local in the outside”.

This exhibition is more like an on-going art project, not only to showcase the artworks but intrigue the audience to reshape and reimagine the relationship with their own land or place or so-called hometown. 

We take the key concept of “borderless” as we