Taiwan Culture on Display in Thailand Textile Show

MatDog, a gallery in Bangkok, is hosting an exhibit by textile designer Yang Tzu-hsing showcasing aspects of everyday life in Taiwan.

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00:00A designer from Tainan is putting on a show at a Bangkok gallery, highlighting everyday

00:05aspects of Taiwanese culture.

00:07Yang Zhixing is the fourth-generation director of a textile firm in the southern city that's

00:12been in business for a century.

00:15But Yang has expanded beyond textiles into other forms of art, including photography.

00:21For this exhibit, he's prepared cloth printed with a range of Taiwanese motifs, plus photos

00:27and actual examples of the objects that inspired them, some as simple but familiar as the white

00:33and blue slippers and red plastic stools found in many Taiwanese homes.

00:38Even if you're in an Asian community, there are things that overlap, so I think it's

00:43quite interesting that some things they've seen, some they've never seen, and some

00:47they have, and some they don't.

00:48So I think it's a very interesting process.