Everything Just As You Left It

Wraparound Gladiola, 2015

watercolor on paper
33 1/8 x 23 1/4 in | 84 x 59 cm

Black White Gray-White, 2013

silk cloth, silk thread, polyurea, wooden frame
85 x 56 1/4 x 9 7/8 in | 216 x 143 x 25 cm

Ballerina with Teeth, 1991

ballet slippers, rubber teeth, and epoxy, Unique
3 1/2 x 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 in | 8.89 x 16.51 x 21.59 cm

We Will Feed You, Cooling Fountain (For Global Warming), 2018

painted metal, pump, blown glass, plastic tubes, aircraft cable, water; and framed watercolour on paper
72 x 29 7/8 x 7/8 in | 183 x 75.8 x 75.8 cm

Daucus carota Summer Madness, 2021-2022

oil base paint, collage, graphite on book page
12 x 10 in | 30.48 x 25.4 cm

Nunu Fine Art Taipei is pleased to announce, Everything Just As You Left It, a group exhibition featuring works by Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan, Cianne Fragione, Rona Pondick, Laure Prouvost, Lin Tianmiao, and Rose Wylie. Through sculptures and works on paper, the exhibition explores the ways in which memory, identity, and personal histories are translated into material forms. Each of the artists’ works touches upon memory—whether through nostalgia, recollection, or reimagining—to transform everyday objects, images, and their own personal experiences. These works allow us to reflect on how memory functions not just as a mental construct, but as something that can be physically materialized, altered, and reinterpreted.  

In Everything Just As You Left It, each artist engages memory as material or as a guiding concept. Through myriad techniques—whether painting, thread-wrapping, sculpture, or collage—they transform personal histories, cultural symbols, and even mundane objects into works of art that challenge the truths of our recollections and invites us to rethink the role of cultural memory in shaping both identity and society. Ultimately, this exhibition positions memory not as a static experience but as a dynamic process of continual transformation and reinvention, one that connects the past with the present and reshapes both in the process. 

Artist

Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan

Alfredo Aquilizian (b. 1962) is a multidisciplinary artist working across watercolor, oil painting, sculpture, mixed media, assemblage, and installation projects. His works draw deeply from memories of his homeland, treating recollection as a means of commemorating past people, events, and objects. Through this artistic approach, he creates connections between himself and others, fostering a sense of shared experience. By collecting letters, domestic objects, sticky notes, baby sweaters, toothbrushes, blankets, and young people's ID photos, he reconstructs an ecology of interactive art, critiques differences, and explores the possibilities of integrated communication.

Isabel Aqua;izan (b. 1965) is an educator, performance artist, director, and actress. Passionate about the collaborative possibilities within the performative process, she and her husband create installations that transcend media and geographical distances. As a mother of five, she integrates elements of family into her installations, reinterpreting the concept of home and dwelling. Her work is rooted in domestic management, child-rearing, caregiving, and the collection of memories, imbuing her art with a distinctive vitality.

Cianne Fragione (b. 1952) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work over the past forty years has transcended the boundaries between abstract painting and sculpture, incorporating objects and images into process-driven art. Her experimental spirit is deeply embedded in her practice, and she is dedicated to pushing the limits of form and medium, making her an important figure in contemporary art.

Fragione's career has been marked by numerous honors, including various awards, fellowships, and artist residencies. These include the Art Omi Residency Program, the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Fellowship, and the Artist-in-Institution Grant from the California Arts Council. Additionally, she has participated in the Joan Mitchell Foundation's Legacy Project and has been involved in multiple international residencies in Italy, including the Studio dei Nipoti Artist Residency in Monasterace and the Spoleto Study Abroad Program in Spoleto.

Cianne Fragione

Rona Pondick

Rona Pondick was born in 1952 in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from the Yale University School of Art, earning her Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in 1977. She currently lives and works in New York City.

Since 1984, Pondick’s works have been collected and exhibited in over 52 museums and galleries worldwide. Notable institutions that have hosted her solo exhibitions include the Galleria d’Arte Moderna Bologna in Italy, the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands, the Museum der Moderne Salzburg in Austria, the Cincinnati Art Museum in the United States, the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts, the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts, the Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, and the Upper Belvedere in Vienna, Austria.

Laure Prouvost was born in 1978 in Lille, France, and is currently based in Brussels. She graduated with a bachelor's degree from Central Saint Martins in London in 2002 and later pursued a master's degree at Goldsmiths, University of London. Prouvost was awarded the MaxMara Art Prize for Women in 2011 and won the prestigious Turner Prize in 2013.

Renowned for her lavish, immersive video works and mixed-media installations, Prouvost masterfully disrupts linear narratives, challenging conventional associations between text, image, and meaning. She has stated that in her works, “fiction and reality often intertwine.” Her compelling and thought-provoking installations incorporate a diverse range of elements—including found objects, sculptures, paintings, drawings, furniture, signs, and architectural components—creating a multi-layered visual universe.

Prouvost’s works actively engage the audience, often drawing them into a world of uninhibited imagination through direct interaction. By addressing viewers directly, she invites them to experience her artistic vision firsthand, immersing them in a realm of creativity and boundless possibilities.

Laure Prouvost

Lin Tianmiao

Lin Tianmiao was born in 1961 in Taiyuan, China, and currently lives and works in Beijing.

She has held solo exhibitions in China, Europe, and the United States, including Body and System at the Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai (2018), 1.62M: Lin Tianmiao at How Art Museum, Wenzhou (2015), and Bound Unbound at the Asia Society Museum, New York (2013). Her works were featured in Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, which later toured to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain. Lin has also participated in numerous international biennials, including the 1997 Istanbul Biennial, the 2002 Shanghai Biennale, the 2002 Irish Biennial, the 2002 and 2004 Gwangju Biennales, and the 2016 Setouchi Triennale in Japan.

Her works are in the collections of major museums, including the Brooklyn Museum (New York), the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA, New York), the National Gallery of Australia, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), Hong Kong’s M+ Museum, and the Singapore Art Museum.

Rose Wylie was born in 1934 in Kent, UK. She obtained her MA from the Royal College of Art in 1981 and currently resides in Kent. Wylie is known for painting on large, unprimed canvases, using her signature loose structures and automatic techniques. Her works from a wide range of sources, including art history, theater, and comics, as well as observations from everyday life, news events, and celebrity anecdotes. The characters and narratives in her paintings often stem from her own filtered memories, accompanied by brief textual elements, forming a visual diary reminiscent of collage.

Wylie’s work reflects her confidence and energy as an artist, offering viewers an alternative perspective on the world and cultural memory.

Rose Wylie