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Huang Yu Jung
Artwork With Medical Functions
Monday, 7 September 2026

Free Air

Free Air is a metal sculpture installed in a public space in Ube City, Japan. The work takes the form of a bottle partly buried in the ground, a reference to discovery and to the industrial history of the site. The upper part is made of 316 stainless steel with a mirror finish, shaped by digital sheet metal forming. The lower part is cast in antique bronze. Rounded bubble forms and few connection points give the heavy metal a light appearance. The sculpture stands 300 centimeters high and invites visitors to approach and touch it.

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Hebei Puteng Culture Media Co., Ltd
Art Space Installation
Sunday, 6 September 2026

Rebirth

Rebirth is an immersive commercial art space designed around the theme of renewal. The space tells the story of an artificial intelligence girl who recreates the earth in the future through memory extraction and remodeling. The interior is divided into three parts along the route of travel: the last earthling, the memory of the earth, and the creation. Simulated animals are made through 3D modeling, sculpture, mold production, painting and hair techniques. Built-in mechanical structures and control systems create lifelike movement.

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Shih-Yuan Wang and Yu-Ting Sheng
Installation Art
Saturday, 5 September 2026

Coralarc

Coralarc utilizes algorithms to simulate the rules of pushing, and growing among cells. After dynamic stacking along the time axis, it gradually forms an organic curved surface. The work utilizes transparent materials to express the beautiful changing form and pure luster of undersea corals, while its colors are the coexistences of the people interacting with the lights, as well as the scenery on the beautiful bay. Through the properties of material, it echoes the endless coastline and sky when the viewer looks out at the sea, and shows different appearances in different periods.

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Fabiano Dalmácio
Grazing Guide
Friday, 4 September 2026

The Book That Grew

The Book That Grew is a grazing guide made for farmers in Ireland. The book presents ten lessons and ten pieces of practical advice intended to improve sustainability and profitability. The ten steps guide farmers toward ten rotations of grass grazing each year and a yield of ten tons of grass per hectare. Each page, word and diagram was shaped by living grass roots, guided along channels over a growth period of several weeks. Complex farming processes are explained through bespoke symbols, and a fold-out page carries the symbol key.

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Melek Zeynep Bulut
Architectural Pavilion
Thursday, 3 September 2026

Open Work

Open Work is a performative spatial space. It is shaped around the metaphors of consciousness and thresholds. Abstract gates and the plan created by surfaces that function like instruments turn into an experience of exchange with the visitor's touch. It intentionally emphasizes monumentality but as visitors interact with the space, this untouchability gives way to an auditory quality and flexibility. This theatrical space is not grounded anywhere and carries its roots along with it, the system is mobile. This structure is also a gentle question mark to the emerging new world right before humans.

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INCEPTION Cultural & Creative Co., Ltd
Immersive Ephemeral Art Exhibition
Wednesday, 2 September 2026

See the Unseen

As the Lunar New Year approaches while most embrace a visible dragon design, the team aim to create a memorable dragon experience that elevates visitors' imagination and memory of the hidden dragon. By partnering with Penique Productions for Taikoo Hui Mall’s CNY, it integrated artistic techniques and mediums to make the dragon elusive with red recyclable film to craft a glass box, this reimagined space offers a sense of elusive presence that enhances the visitor's immersion into the concept of the dragon, aiming to bring new year blessings them in the newly redefined space of the mall.

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