【 娣阳・贝克 ：噬母 】
Tiyan Baker : Matriphagy
/ 艺术家 Artist /
娣阳・贝克 Tiyan Baker
/ 策展人 Curator /
邱上源 Alfonse Chiu
/ 展览日期 Duration /
2025.07.10 – 2025.08.21
/ 展览地点 Venue /
PTT Space
台北市松山区敦化南路一段100巷5弄31号旁
Besides Alley 5, Lane 100, Section 1, Dunhua S Rd, 31, 1f, Songshan District, Taipei, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
展览介绍
PTT Space 很荣幸地呈现艺术家娣阳・贝克（Tiyan Baker）在东亚的首次个展：「娣阳・贝克：噬母」（Tiyan Baker: Matriphagy）。艺术家贝克长期探索着原住民（性）的科技政治和传统知识体系，并以此为基础创作出近期最新的动态影像、摄影和装置作品。贝克的作品已在澳洲和东南亚的许多机构进行展出，本次展览则标誌着这位亚太地区的艺术新星在画廊的首次亮相。
娣阳・贝克 Tiyan Baker
祈愿鳄鱼降临II
Invocation to be visited by a crocodile II
2022
布料、反光带、浮标、
钓鱼线、玻璃珠、缝线、複合媒材
Fabric, Reflective Ribbon, Floats, Fishing Line,
Glass Beads, Thread, Mixed Media
26 × 33 × 288 cm
娣阳・贝克 Tiyan Baker
祈愿鳄鱼降临IV
Invocation to be visited by a crocodile IV
2022
艺术微喷相纸
Pigment Prints on Photo Paper
34 × 60 cm
「噬母」（Matriphagy）是指某些生物吞噬自身母体的现象，象徵着极致牺牲的姿态；母体甘愿成为其后代生存所需的养分来源——透过母体的死亡，生命得以萌生。「噬母」这个概念同时延伸为一种隐喻——儘管殖民及帝国政权的知识体系及政治暴力不断迫近，原住民的文化知识和宇宙观却透过母系和母系社会的抵抗实践而得以传承下来。我们也可以透过这个概念，进而理解在作为婆罗洲比达友族原住民女性与澳洲原住民领地定居者的双重身份下，艺术家娣阳・贝克如何进行自身的权衡，并且认识那些深嵌于她与土地、生命和语言的每一种关係形式之中，自我认同与社会模式二者之间无可迴避的冲突。
娣阳・贝克 Tiyan Baker
丛林系列
Jungle Series
2025
装裱数位印刷
Mounted Digital Print
38 × 38 cm
娣阳・贝克 Tiyan Baker
以口呼吸的人
mouthbreather
2023
单频道录像
Single-channel video
12’56”
娣阳・贝克 Tiyan Baker
比达友族布卡人初始聚落遗址建造长屋
Building a longhouse at the site of the first Bukar Bidayǔh settlement
2025
单频道录像、竹筏装置
Single-channel Video on Bamboo Ramp
1.6 × 1.8 × 1.9 m (Ramp)
18’33” (Video)
展览现场
关于艺术家
娣阳・贝克 Tiyan Baker
娣阳・贝克（Tiyan Baker）是一位创作媒材涵盖装置、摄影、录像和凋塑的艺术家。她的创作取材于历史研究、语言、数位处理和媒材实验，旨在追溯文字、地点和故事之间无形的关联。娣阳以其比达友族（Bidayǔh）文化为创作核心，同时也关注那些她在不知不觉中继承的事物。她在远离了故土、文化和家人的异乡婆罗洲（Borneo），从（再）殖民化的背景中，探索所有可能被误译或遗失的事物，以及在原地随之现形的种种。她的作品曾在澳洲各地广泛展出，并荣获奥尔伯里默里艺术博物馆（Murray Art Museum Albury）颁发的2022年国家摄影奖。她出生并成长于拉拉奇亚（Larrakia），这片土地即现在的达尔文；目前生活与工作于澳洲的阿瓦巴卡尔（Awabakal）和沃里米（Worimi），即为人所知的澳洲纽卡斯尔（Newcastle）。
关于策展人
邱上源 Alfonse Chiu
邱上源是一位作家、设计师和策展人，主要工作地为台北、新加坡和纽约。他的实践以研究为导向，其领域涵盖了当代艺术、建筑、表演和电影，旨在挖掘后殖民时期东南亚地区，其中支撑资本与意识形态流动的地下运作机制与基础架构。透过展览、出版物与表演，揭示权力与知识体制如何借由视觉、物质及空间文化的生产与流通，建构出社会对价值、财产与欲望的定义。他曾于Khoj（新德里）、台南市美术馆（台南）、Matadero媒体实验室（马德里）、PACT Zollverein（埃森）、Loop艺术节（巴塞隆纳）、DECK（新加坡）、海马回光画馆（台南）等艺术机构呈现策展项目，并获以下机构委托撰文：亚洲电影资料馆、柏林国际电影节、沙迦建筑三年展、Nieuwe Instituut、Nasher雕塑中心，以及在《ArtReview》、《ArtAsiaPacific》、《Ocula》及《Hyperallergic》等期刊进行发表。他是2021年秋季e-flux期刊研究员、2025年欧洲建筑平台LINA研究员，并于2023年荣获由The World Around主办的首届青年气候奖。邱上源拥有耶鲁大学建筑学院环境设计硕士学位，并担任耶鲁大学惠特尼人文中心热带研究工作组召集人，现为PTT Space策展人。
Exhibition Introduction
PTT Space is delighted to present Tiyan Baker: Matriphagy, the artist's first solo exhibition in East Asia. Featuring new and recent moving image, photography, and installation works, that draw on Baker's long-term investigations into the techno-politics of indigen(eit)y and traditional knowledge systems, this presentation marks the gallery debut of a rising star in the Asia Pacific whose works have been shown extensively in Australian and Southeast Asian institutions.
A form of matricidal cannibalism that is found in certain animal species, the phenomenon of matriphagy represents a gesture of ultimate sacrifice that sees the maternal body becoming a willing source of nutrients for the survival of her offspring—through her death, life emerges. As an extended metaphor for how indigenous cultural knowledges and cosmologies are passed down through matrilineal and matrisocial practices of resistance despite the looming forces of epistemic and political violence from colonial and imperial regimes, the concept of matriphagy is also a useful heuristics for understanding how Baker triangulates her own negotiation of her heritage as both an indigenous Bidayǔh woman of Borneo and a settler on the lands of Aboriginal Country, and the inevitable contestations between colliding schemas of identity and society, embedded within each forms of relation to land, life, and language.
娣阳・贝克 Tiyan Baker
丛林系列
Jungle Series
2025
装裱数位印刷
Mounted Digital Print
38 × 38 cm
娣阳・贝克 Tiyan Baker
Tarun
2020
单频道录像
Single-channel video
15‘38“
About the Artist
Tiyan Baker
Tiyan Baker is an artist who works with installation, photography, video and sculpture. Her practice draws on historical research, language, digital processes and material play to trace unseen relationships between words, place and stories. Centring her Bidayǔh culture in her works, Baker is also interested in things she has unknowingly inherited. Living far from native lands, culture and family, in the midst of the (re)colonisation of Borneo, she explores all that can be mistranslated or lost, and what can manifest in its place. She has shown her works widely across Australia, and is the winner of the 2022 National Photography Prize awarded by the Murray Art Museum Albury. She was born and raised on the Larrakia lands known as Darwin and currently lives and works on the Awabakal and Worimi lands known as Newcastle, Australia.
About the Curator
Alfonse Chiu
Alfonse Chiu is a writer, designer, and curator based between Taipei, Singapore, and New York. Working across contemporary art, architecture, performance, and cinema, Chiu's research-based practice seeks to excavate the subterranean processes and infrastructures underpinning capital and ideological flows in post-colonial South/East Asia. Through exhibitions, publications, and performances, Chiu identifies how regimes of power and knowledge manifest through the production and circulation of visual, material, and spatial cultures to structure social definitions of value, property, and desire. They have presented curatorial projects at Khoj (New Delhi), Tainan Art Museum (Tainan), Medialab Matadero (Madrid), PACT Zollverein (Essen), Loop Festival (Barcelona), DECK (Singapore), Fotoaura Institute of Photography (Tainan), among others. Their texts have been commissioned by institutions including the Asian Film Archive, Berlin International Film Festival, Sharjah Architecture Triennial, Nieuwe Instituut, and the Nasher Sculpture Center; and published in periodicals including ArtReview, ArtAsiaPacific, Ocula, and Hyperallergic. They were the fall 2021 e-flux journal fellow, a 2025 European architecture platform LINA fellow, and a cohort laureate of the inaugural Young Climate Prize 2023, organized by The World Around. Chiu holds a Master of Environmental Design from the Yale School of Architecture and is convener of the Tropical Studies Working Group at the Yale University Whitney Humanities Center. Chiu is currently Curator of PTT Space.
關於 PTT SPACE
PTT的名字來源於台灣常用的論壇名，取其論壇開放討論的特性，希望能創造一個開放且不斷有新議題的藝術平台。這個空間承載了台北八大畫廊將近40年的歷史，並在這樣的基礎上生發出新的觀念。此空間設立在台北市東區巷內的老公寓中，伴隨周遭濃厚的生活氣息，期待空間外的日常與空間內的展覽相呼應，藝術和生活合而為一。
The name of PTT inspired by a popular forum in Taiwan featured an open discussion with a wide range of topics. We hope to create a space that includes any possibilities for the arts. This space is an exten- sion of the 40 years old Pata Gallery, located in an old apartment in the East District of Taipei and sur- rounded by Taipei's messy yet nostalgic ambiance.
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台北市松山區敦化南路一段100巷7弄31號一樓
10557, Taipei City, Songshan District, Alley 7, Lane 100, Section 1, Dunhua South Road, No.31, 1F
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