"On the Waves Searching for Maternal Body Memory" — Lam Jung Yi Solo Exhibition

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The exhibition, titled 'On the Waves Searching for Maternal Body Memory', extends Lam Jung Yi's research and creative context from 'Tapa Art Practice under a Post-Austronesian Perspective'. Tapa cloth serves as the core medium — a traditional fibre craft originating from Taiwan's indigenous cultural context, made by beating and stretching tree bark. Its production process is deeply embedded in bodily labour, natural environments, and community practice. When Lam Jung Yi encountered tapa cloth craftsmanship across different Austronesian regions, the recurring sense of similarity and cultural resonance led her to understand maternal memory as a state of continuous generation — through walking, connecting, and creating. Like a 'wave', it is a state of continuous movement, allowing cultural memory to be seen not as something statically preserved, but as something repeatedly evoked and transformed through materials, spatial perception, and lived practice. This solo exhibition invites creators from different fields to collaborate and exhibit under Lam's proposed creative context and methodology. Each work responds to the exhibition theme in its own independent form, translating tapa cloth from a craft context into the contemporary art field as a medium for thinking about cultural flow and memory formation.