UP Gallery is honored to act as collaborating partner in Hsinchu City Art Gallery’s 2026 key exhibition, Yuri—Until We Touch Our Emotional Quadrants. During the exhibition period, the gallery presents a dedicated satellite venue, extending the exhibition’s inquiry into female emotionality, intimacy, and modes of viewing beyond the museum space and into the urban landscape.

Curated by Wang Yung-Lin and Lin Ying-Ying, the exhibition brings together artists from Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and Canada to explore emotional relationships that exist between friendship, companionship, attachment, affection, and identification. Through photography, moving image, installation, and collaborative projects, the exhibition examines forms of intimacy that often resist fixed definitions yet remain deeply embedded within everyday life.

UP Gallery’s satellite venue expands the dialogue initiated by the main exhibition, creating an additional site for reflection on female subjectivity, emotional projection, and interpersonal connection. Together, the two venues invite visitors to navigate between institutional and urban spaces while engaging with the exhibition’s nuanced emotional narratives.

Among the participating artists is UP Gallery represented artist Mia Liu, whose practice investigates the materiality of paper, the spatial qualities of photographic images, and the ways photography can extend beyond the two-dimensional surface.

Her exhibited work, Aura: Light & Drawing (2022), layers traces of flashlight exposure with computer hand-drawn lines, creating a subtle dialogue between analogue light, digital gesture, and material surface. Through the contrasting textures of Bergger silver photographic paper and ILFORD smooth gloss photographic paper, as well as a sculptural framing structure, the work unfolds as a meditation on perception, memory, and emotional resonance. Oscillating between photography and drawing, materiality and digitality, the work reflects the exhibition’s broader exploration of fluid and unclassifiable forms of intimacy.

Satellite Venue | Artworks

Ciwas Tahos（ Taiwan） | Pswagi Temahahoi
Ciwas Tahos presents the video and ceramic instrument installation Pswagi Temahahoi (2022 – 2025). Following Atayal elders’ traditional light-and-shadow techniques for tracking wild honey, the artist transforms this process into a journey searching for the legendary “Temahahoi” (Women’s Society)—a community holding queer characteristics where conception occurs through the wind. In this work, ceramics serve as a sonic spectrum to summon these memories.

siren eun young jung (Korea) | Dust
The Dust siren eun young jung, who previously represented the Korean Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, showcases  Dust (2023). Since 2008, jung has investigated “Yeoseong Gukgeuk” (Korean traditional all-female theater). Through the bodily movements in the performance, she fills historical voids, unfolding heterogeneous and queer political potentials.

Petra Totten (Canada) ｜my body is a place, just like any other，visitations
my body is a place, just like any other Set against the desert landscape of the American Southwest, this road movie follows a transgender woman, Carrie, on a journey to explore a place-based experience described as a “transgender space.” As a synthesis of perspectives from the director and multiple transgender individuals, the character of Carrie drifts through the wilderness, piecing together disjointed fragments of identity through whispering voiceovers.

visitations This work captures the artist returning home with family to sort through ancestral belongings after forming a household with their partner. Utilizing the reflexivity of photography and moving images, the piece navigates through time, body, and memory to open up a profound dialogue regarding self-gender identity and family history.

We warmly invite you to visit both Hsinchu City Art Gallery and UP Gallery’s satellite venue to experience how contemporary photographic practices can open new ways of perceiving emotional connection and shared experience.