羅國朕

Taiwanese artist Guo Jhen Luo graduated from the Graduate Institute of Applied Arts, Department of Ceramics, at Tainan National University of the Arts. He has served as an instructor for wood firing and raku workshops. Guo Jhen’s creations stem from his own bodily experiences, leading him to explore the body as a vessel of memory and its multiple layers of meaning. When the body ceases to symbolize wholeness and instead becomes a space of absence marked by memory and scars, the viewer’s perspective is also redefined. The body thus becomes an object to be observed, preserved, and imagined—prompting viewers, through uncertain experiences, to respond ethically to fragmented and speechless forms.

Guo Jhen’s works not only present the formation of the physical form but also extend to its continued existence after rupture. By using high-fired clay to capture a certain fixed momentary posture and by sealing unfired clay bodies in vacuum bags, he creates works that are simultaneously “preserved” and “destroyed.” In the quiet act of viewing, audiences are invited to imagine an emotional dialogue interwoven with resistance, compromise, and regret—establishing a contemplation of time, the body, and memory.