Taiwan Docs

Beginning with rumors surrounding a tiger-shaped concrete statue in an artist village, the film drifts through nightscapes, fireworks, infrared imagery, and ritualistic actions. Within the ceramic workshop "Three men make a tiger," forms are repeatedly sculpted and transformed through subtle variations. Treating the image as a temporary dwelling place for spirits, the work asks: when a form can no longer be replicated, how can so-called realism still be sustained?

The Tiger God project was launched during the artist's residence at Hualien's Cien Art Village in 2021, when he heard from a Sikawasay (an Amis priest) that a concrete tiger figure in the institute was possessed by a soul. This experience has inspired her to explore the intersection of the Han people's folk beliefs and the Amis people's spiritual worldview, from which he further investigates the suppressed history of indigenous beliefs in Eastern Taiwan under colonial and religious persecution.