Date : 2010.10.2~2011.1.9

Venue : National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts

Art and culture take their root in land, people and society. They are from the power that comes within; thus this power enables art works to encompass a wide variety of cultural elements. Locality, dissimilarity, and diversity converge and leave their legacies to form the richness of cultural soil and this led to an artistic world which is all-embracing and visionary. This year, the 2010 Taiwan Biennial establishes itself on that fruitful achievement of its forerunner, branding  itself with the theme “Yes, Taiwan,” to investigate the population consisting of art exhibitions and works in Taiwan since 2008 until now. With digging deeper into the population, the biennial brings forward 7 subtopics which illustrate Taiwan’s present art world. To build a field of heteroglossia, the exhibition adopts two ways to form its artistic content, Invitation and Open-call for Entries, expecting to sort out the diverse trends of contemporary visual art in Taiwan. The aims is to provide a platform of dialogue for Taiwanese and international artists. So Taiwan can see the world and the world to see Taiwan from fresh angles.

This year, from amongst 809 submissions, works of art by 18 artists were selected based on creative technique, expression of ideas, depth of artistic vocabulary, aesthetic integrity, and innovation, in accordance with the seven main themes of the exhibition and based on the works' suitability, investigative value, and representativeness. Gallery J. Chen artist Lin Cingfong's series "Betal Nut Beauties" has been selected to participate in this exhibition.

Ocean whispers to Formosa, the beautiful island. Taiwan is an island with rich and diversified history. We are confident that it is because of art that we can come together while upholding the value of openness and diversity of our culture. And with this colorful cultural richness, we can confidently announce to the world --- Yes Taiwan!