CURATORIAL STATEMENT:
《緩慢前行》持續探索一個核心問題：我們要如何持續前進，同時不讓追求進步的過程，消耗掉原本想好好建立的生活？
展覽從一些沒有立即答案的問題出發：我們如何將一段關係留在記憶裡？如何面對老去、孤獨與失去？在追逐夢想的過程中，我們要如何判斷自己仍在朝有意義的方向前進，或是已經到了該停下腳步、重新選擇方向的時候？
在這裡，平衡是一種持續調整的練習，而不是完美或固定不變的狀態。我們不斷在努力與休息、野心與知足、自我保護與敞開之間，尋找適合自己的位置。呼吸既是一種身體的動作，也是一個隱喻，讓我們暫時拉開距離，重新看見自己正在承受什麼。
透過色彩、光線、聲音與安靜的風景，展覽邀請觀者放慢腳步，短暫停下來，做一次深呼吸。作品回應某些景色與環境如何在片刻之間改變我們內在的節奏，讓身體慢慢放鬆，也讓腦中的聲音不再那麼擁擠。
受到斯多噶哲學影響，展覽也思考什麼是我們能夠掌握的，什麼又是必須學會接受的。我們無法完全控制失去、改變、老去或他人的選擇，卻仍然可以決定要將時間、注意力與關心留給誰；何時需要設下界線；何時允許自己休息；以及要用什麼樣的速度繼續前行。
透過壓克力繪畫、石粉土雕塑、聲音、空間裝置與象徵性人物，《緩慢前行》以影像、物件與生命經驗，探索我們如何與自己及周遭世界相處。展覽不試圖提供單一答案，也不承諾藝術能直接療癒任何人，而是希望創造一個會呼吸的房間，讓觀者認出自己的情緒，重新衡量生活的速度與重量，並理解緩慢並不等於停滯，也可以是一種更專注、更平衡、更有意識的生活方式。
在 Pièce 空間中央，與眠豆腐合作的裝置將床墊、隨氣流輕動的薄膜與水波光影帶入空間，邀請觀者坐下或躺臥，在身體受到承托的片刻，感受休息與呼吸的節奏。
Moving Slowly, Living Fully
Moving Slowly, Living Fully continues to explore a central question: how can we keep moving forward without allowing the pursuit of progress to consume the life we are trying to build?
The exhibition begins with questions that have no immediate answers. How do we preserve a relationship in memory? How do we face ageing, loneliness, and loss? While pursuing a dream, how do we know whether we are still moving toward something meaningful, or whether it is time to pause and choose another direction?
Here, balance is an ongoing practice of adjustment rather than a perfect or permanent state. We continually search for our own position between effort and rest, ambition and contentment, self-protection and openness. Breathing becomes both a physical action and a metaphor, allowing us to create some distance and recognise more clearly what we are carrying.
Through colour, light, sound, and quiet landscapes, the exhibition invites visitors to slow down, pause, and take a deep breath. The works reflect how certain views and environments can briefly alter our inner rhythm, allowing the body to relax and the mind to feel less crowded.
Influenced by Stoic philosophy, the exhibition also considers what we can control and what we must learn to accept. We cannot completely control loss, change, ageing, or the choices of others. We can still decide where to place our time, attention, and care; when to establish boundaries; when to allow ourselves to rest; and at what pace we wish to continue.
Through acrylic painting, stone clay sculpture, sound, spatial installations, and symbolic figures, Moving Slowly, Living Fully draws on images, objects, and lived experience to explore how we relate to ourselves and the world around us. The exhibition does not offer a single answer or promise that art can directly heal anyone. Instead, it seeks to create a room that breathes, allowing visitors to recognise their own emotions, reconsider the speed and weight of their lives, and understand that moving slowly does not mean standing still. It can also be a way of living with greater attention, balance, and intention.
In the middle of Pièce, an installation created in collaboration with Sleepy Tofu brings mattresses, a membrane that moves gently with the air, and projected ripples of light into the space. Visitors are invited to sit or lie down, feel their bodies supported, and settle into the rhythm of rest and breathing.
【緩慢前行 Moving slowly, living fully.】
開幕活動｜2026 年 10 月 3 日（六）15:00–18:00
展覽開放時間｜週二至週日 14:00–20:00（每週一休館）
CREATOR PROFILE
MVM（Michael Vincent Manalo／劉邁克）1986 年出生於菲律賓奎松市，現居台北。自 2011 年起，他曾在不同城市與國家之間生活與創作。這段遊牧經驗使身份、記憶、孤獨、尋找家的過程，以及人與環境之間的關係，成為他長期關注的創作核心。
他的創作橫跨壓克力繪畫、數位影像、聲音、擴增實境、石粉土雕塑與裝置，經常透過超現實而近似夢境的場景，描繪人物處於脆弱、孤立或充滿不確定的時刻。男孩、烏龜、雲朵、房屋與貓等反覆出現的意象，逐漸形成一套關於內在小孩、陪伴、平衡、夢想與歸屬感的視覺語言。
作品曾於澳洲、菲律賓、台灣、義大利、英國、喬治亞、德國、日本、波蘭、塞爾維亞、西班牙、韓國及美國等地展出。曾獲義大利奇安恰諾泰爾梅美術館數位藝術首獎、美國 Redmond Digital Arts Festival 最佳攝影插畫獎、英國 Secret Art Prize 第二名，並獲新加坡美術館提名 APBF Signature Art Prize。
近年他曾與 GIANT 合作，將騎行經驗與人生故事轉化為藝術自行車，也曾於香山濕地創作結合環境聲音的裝置，並為高雄燈會創作光藝術裝置。2026 年，他於台北 POMA Project 展出《Gentle Collapse》，參與中臺灣燈會公共藝術創作，並於 Maison ACME 圓山別墅發表《Moving Slowly, Living Fully》。
MVM 的創作從個人經驗出發，將圖像、物件、聲音與空間轉化為觀者可以停留、辨認自身情緒，並重新思考生活方式的場域。
MVM（Michael Vincent Manalo／劉邁克）was born in Quezon City, Philippines, in 1986 and is currently based in Taipei. Since 2011, he has lived and worked across different cities and countries. This nomadic experience has made identity, memory, loneliness, the search for home, and the relationship between people and their environments central to his practice.
Working across acrylic painting, digital imagery, sound, augmented reality, stone-clay sculpture, and installation, MVM creates surreal and dreamlike scenes that often place figures in moments of vulnerability, isolation, or uncertainty. Recurring images of a boy, turtle, clouds, houses, and cats form a visual language that explores the inner child, companionship, balance, dreams, and belonging.
His work has been exhibited in Australia, the Philippines, Taiwan, Italy, the United Kingdom, Georgia, Germany, Japan, Poland, Serbia, Spain, South Korea, the United States, and other countries. His recognitions include First Prize in Digital Art from the Art Museum of Chianciano Terme, the Best Photographic Illustration Award at the Redmond Digital Arts Festival, Second Place in the Secret Art Prize, and a nomination for the APBF Signature Art Prize by the Singapore Art Museum.
In recent years, he has collaborated with GIANT to transform cycling experiences and personal stories into art bicycles. He has also created an environmental sound installation at Xiangshan Wetlands and a light-art installation for the Kaohsiung Lantern Festival. In 2026, he presented Gentle Collapse at POMA Project, created a public artwork for the Central Taiwan Lantern Festival, and presented Moving Slowly, Living Fully at Maison ACME Yuanshan Villa.
Beginning with personal experiences, MVM transforms images, objects, sound, and space into environments where visitors can pause, recognise their own emotions, and reconsider how they move through life.
Pièce 