Richard Müller's exhibition 匯聚空間/Convergent Space is an exploration of the material and social systems that connect individuals within the urban landscape of Hsinchu. 匯聚空間/Convergent Space uses a wide variety of media, such as sculpture, video, and painting, to consider the everyday ways residents shape the city.Central to Müller's work is the notion that cities are complex systems containing a mosaic of formal and informal practices that both contrast and overlap. The exhibition has been designed in two parts to consider this relationship. Part 1 uses a visual language inspired by the material and concrete logic of the official city. Electrical cables, concrete masonry units and aluminum siding become items upon which complex systems emerge and grow. Part 2 uses four sites: a riverside garden, a temple, a rooftop and a market, as spaces to discuss the differing ways cities are used unofficially. Color profiles have been developed from each location to produce four 'Glitch' paintings. The 'Glitch' series is guided by the aesthetics of ceramic tiles and camouflage patterns to consider how such unofficial practices often “hide within plain sight”.

Richard Müller 的展覽「匯聚空間/Convergent Space」 是對新竹城市景觀中聯繫個人的物質和社會系統的探索。 匯聚空間/Convergent Space 使用雕塑、影像和繪畫等多種媒材來思考居民塑造城市的日常方式。 Müller 的創作核心認為城市是複雜的系統，而在這系統裡堆疊著一系列既衝突又互相影響的正式和非正式實踐。 此次展覽分為兩部分來思考這樣的堆疊關係： 第一部分使用城市官方機構所建置的材料和具體邏輯作為視覺創作語言。 電纜、混凝土砌塊和鐵皮是複雜系統得以養成和發展的基礎。 第二部分使用四個場景：河濱花園、寺廟、屋頂和市場，作為空間來討論城市中不同面向的非正式實踐。 每個場景都配置自己的色彩系統，好延伸製作四幅「故障(Glitch)」畫作。 「故障」系列以瓷磚和迷彩圖案的美學為方針，思考這種非正式實踐通常是如何「隱藏在眾目睽睽之下」。

The exhibition is the result of a 3 month residency at Art Site.

The exhibition was supported by:
Accton Arts Foundation
Cultural Affairs Bureau, Hsinchu City
Nippon Paint, Taiwan