Exhibitions
History in the making: Su Hui-Yu transforms MAMBO into a film studio
The Total Saga , the first solo exhibition in Latin America by acclaimed Taiwanese multimedia artist Su Hui-Yu, arrives at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (MAMBO) with a proposal specifically designed for the space. His work explores the tensions between memory, identity, and technology through immersive installations that combine archives, fiction, and performance. His practice focuses on the aesthetic strategy of "re-filming," through which he revisits historical materials to address taboos, forgotten episodes, and cultural narratives from Taiwan, reinterpreting them from a contemporary and provocative perspective.
During the first three days of its opening, Su Hui-Yu transforms MAMBO into a veritable film studio, incorporating his most recent material into a constantly evolving cinematic project. With a hypersaturated, baroque, and psychedelic aesthetic, The Total Saga invites visitors to become active participants in a universe where mass media become tools for reimagining collective memory.
Her film project, "A Continuous Story," reflects on the creation of history and narrative: revisiting collective memory and opening the door to new imaginations. It begins with a key question: in this monumental narrative, who is part of it and who is left out? How can the story be told in its entirety?
Curated by Eugenio Viola and Juaniko Moreno, the temporary tour of The Total Saga will be available at the Bogotá headquarters until February 15, along with two other exhibition universes: Ephemeral Panic by Ambra Castagnetti and The House of Asterion: The Collection on Stage #6, a proposal inspired by Borges' story that invites us to explore the boundaries between the human and the monstrous through the MAMBO collection.
In this exhibition, Su Hui-Yu, along with guest artist Cheng Hsien-Yu, will premiere a unique performance during the opening, which interweaves the historical context of Colombia with the historical structures of Taiwan. The work proposes a reflection on how history, capitalism, technology, and geopolitics shape our present. In Bogotá, the project takes on a new dimension: it becomes a meditation on who is part of history, both on and off screen.
Alongside her new works The Total Story and The Trio Hall , the exhibition also brings together Su Hui-Yu's earlier and recent series: The Space Warriors and the Digigrave (2023/2025), The Women's Revenge (2020), The Walker (2017), and Life, Pleasure, and the Reading Room (2017).
Su reflects on Taiwan, an island marked by centuries of diverse influences—from the Han Empire to Dutch, Spanish, and French colonizers, to the Japanese occupation and Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang—and how, following its democratization in the 1990s, it has emerged as a key player in the global network of technology and computing. This metamorphosis has boosted its prosperity but also placed it in a delicate dance between superpower tensions, caught between ambition, influence, and resources.
