Walking in Place – Liu Han-Chih Solo Exhibition is the first show held in the Taipei Fine Arts Museum by the grand-prize winner of Taipei Arts Awards after the competition rules amended in 2010. In order to encourage artists to deepen the development and connotation of artworks, as well as to polish the expression of their artistic forms, each annual prize winner is offered an opportunity to hold a solo exhibition in the Taipei Fine Arts Museum. It is believed this could accumulate their power of artistic creation, increase the publicity, and even open up more possibilities of their diversified progression.

Liu Han-Chih, born in Taiwan, is the grand-prize winner of 2011 Taipei Arts Awards. He mainly manipulates low-tech mechanical components or equipment to assemble his so-called quasi-props, along with the text-described drawings through which to depict people’s melancholic feelings and inactive attitudes toward life.

This exhibition showcases his latest five pieces of artworks. Liu Han-Chih continues using three-dimensional mechanical installations with plane text-included drawings to delineate the peculiar scenarios generated from people’s psychological states.

These prop-objects assist us by augmenting private or abnormal states of mind. This augmentation takes the form of aggravating inner states while making their external manifestations more dramatic. The abnormal states in question arise from our failure to comply with, or escape from, discipline imposed by modern society, and are similar to a trance induced by assembly line production or a sleepwalking on a highway. Users of these devices get the most intimate service, as abnormal states are fully indulged. The weak can just be weak, and the petty can be petty until their necks break. 
– Liu Han-Chih