(___)

This site-specific installation by Sunny Hsu and Anny Chen was created in the Cing Shuei Military Village, a space once home to military families, now standing empty.

Stepping into this unfamiliar environment, we felt like intruders. The space still belonged to someone, even if no one was left to claim it. The fragility of what remained: wooden beams, a broken couch, an empty stovetop that still marked where a kitchen used to be. Surrounded by the growing city, the space felt like a delicate, collapsing object suspended in time.

We attempt to both protect and confront the space's vulnerability, filling it with 充氣包 (airbags), a material commonly used to protect fragile objects in transit. We titled the work "(__)" to reflect both the form of the airbags and the emptiness they attempted to hold. The installation formed as a tension between the act of cushioning something valuable and the futility of trying to fill a void.

As outsiders living beside the site, we're still not sure if attention is a form of care, or just another kind of intrusion.