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30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Su Hui-Yu

SU Hui-yu (1976, Taiwan) studied Fine Art at the National Taiwan Normal University and the National Taiwan University of Arts, both in Taipei. Su is mostly interested in the connections between media, images, history, and everyday life. Themes present in his work deal with violence, sleep, the female body, and a general interplay between reality and fantasy. His video works and installations have been shown all over the world and his solo exhibitions, The Fabled Shoots in 2007 and Stilnox Home Video in 2010, were nominated for the Taishin Arts Award. In addition, Su was awarded the Asian Cultural Council Fellowship Award and participated in artist-in-residence programmes in New York, Munich, Los Angeles, and the Czech Republic. In 2017, IFFR dedicated a retrospective to Su’s video works, while his film Super Taboo (2017) had its world premiere in the Tiger Competition for Short Films. Su returned to the Tiger Short Competition in 2021 with The Women’s Revenge. The Cinema of Séance, his first solo exhibition in the Netherlands, could be seen in 1646 Experimental Art Space in The Hague in 2021. For IFFR 2022, Su created the performance Revenge Scenes – in collaboration with Cheng Hsien-Yu.

Filmography

(selection) The Fable Shoots (2007, video), Bloody Beauty (2009, video), She Ate the Face (2010, video), A Horror Day (2010, video), Stilnox Home Video: The Midnight Hours (2010, video), Stilnox Strolling (2011, video), Happy Birthday (2011, instal), The Upcoming Show (2012, instal), Stilnox Home Video (2010), Men Carrying Shame (2015, instal), Nue Quan (2015, instal), the Color, the Tele, the Vision (2015, instal), Shameful Strangers (2015, instal), Thou Shalt Not Self-pollute (2015, instal), A Man After Midnight (2015, instal), Super Taboo (2015, instal), L’être et le néant (1962, Chang Chao-Tang) (2016, video), Chao Chi Jin Ji/Super Taboo (2017, short), The Glamorous Boys of Tang (2018, short), The White Waters (2019, instal), The Women’s Revenge (2020, short), Revenge Scenes (2021, performance)

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Su Hui-Yu at IFFR

  • The Women’s Revenge

    In a dynamic re-enactment of 1980s Taiwanese sexploitation films, five women go on a vengeful rampage in the fog-filled night.

    • Ammodo Tiger Short Competition

  • The Glamorous Boys of Tang

    In his characteristic style of slow-motion camp, Su Hui-yu invokes lost scenes from a glitter-scattered, blood-splattered orgy from a 1985 cult film.

    • Ammodo Tiger Short Competition

  • Super Taboo

    Based on a pornographic book from the 1980s, Taiwanese artist Su Hui-yu’s immersive two-channel video brings frozen tableaux of a forest orgy to

    • Tiger Competition for Short Films

  • Thou Shalt Not Self-pollute (Dr. Kinsey)

    Traditional society tends to look down on masturbation. In atmospheric slow motion, a doctor tells his patients of the ‘self-polluting’ consequences o

    • Deep Focus Short

  • Man Carrying Shame

    Shrouded in darkness, the private imagination of a man addicted to pornography is made public in Su Hui-yu’s eerie video.

    • Deep Focus Short

  • A Man After Midnight

    Referencing a popular ABBA song, Su Hui-yu’s video conducts a séance of a late-night Taiwanese television variety show where host Frankie

    • Deep Focus Short

  • Nue Quan

    Based on a real-life incident, this ethereal video is a quiet requiem for a man who suffocated to death from erotic asphyxiation with his one-night st

    • Deep Focus Short

  • Stilnox Home Video: The Midnight Hours

    Trapped between waking life and the subconscious, Su Hui-yu finds television characters come to life in his smoke-filled apartment room after he takes

    • Deep Focus Short

  • The Upcoming Show

    Colour bars on television screens used to signal the end of the day. For Su Hui-yu as a child, this was when his imagination was triggered.

    • Deep Focus Short

  • The Walker

    Pop culture and high art merge into a physical, visual interpretation of the Walker Theatre in Taipei, which – in the 1990s – was hom

    • Maximum Overdrive