Musquiqui Chihying

The Recasting is a multimedia installation by Musquiqui Chihying featuring three broken vitrines with sound, fog, and light. Visitors wear wireless headphones or follow subtitles on a three-monitor screen. The work is about a Copper ding cauldron with inscription “Boai”, a Japanese bronze object from the National Palace Museum in Taipei that remained in Taiwan after the end of Japanese colonial rule. Three framed drawings reinterpret the tripod’s original motifs.
    The installation reflects Chihying’s interest in how museums rewrite history through objects, giving voice to forgotten artifacts. It invites reflection on Taiwan’s layered history of longing and transformation, and embodies a quiet yearning—for belonging, memory, and identity.
    Chihying explores how identities are formed in places once subjected to colonization, and how archives and museum collections shape what is remembered.