Taipei’s Fashion in Flux opens October 28: photography, clothing and 35 artists
NCPI’s Taipei exhibition opens a day later because of a typhoon. The third floor opens October 28, the second November 11, with free admission to a project linking fashion photography and clothing design.
Fashion in Flux: The Language We Wear at the Taipei venue of the National Center of Photography and Images (NCPI), originally due to open on October 27, will now open on October 28 because of a typhoon. On October 27, the second- and third-floor galleries are closed for exhibition changeover; the ground-floor 未來市 concept store and Coffee To remain open as usual. Visitors interested in fashion photography, styling and Taiwan’s photographic history should shift their plans by a day and follow the latest opening notice rather than posters still bearing the old date.
Curated by TENG Po-Jen, the overall exhibition brings together 35 artists and opens across two floors in stages. Galleries 301–303 and 305 on the third floor open first and run through March 10, 2027. Galleries 201–203 on the second floor are scheduled to join on November 11 and run through March 14, 2027. The floors have different start and end dates; 35 is the total for the overall project, not a promise that both floors will be accessible on October 28.
Beyond clothes: how does the camera turn a pose into style?
Gallery 301 places everyday life alongside performance. AL Poshi works through domestic and everyday settings, Qiqi CHEW photographs friends and models, and JONG Yi-Ling builds images through styling, props and bodily performance. Together, these approaches offer concrete viewing cues: a photograph’s style comes not only from the cut of the clothes, but also from the distance between a person and their surroundings, the positioning of the body and the relationship between photographer and subject.
Overlapping forms in a black-and-white image convey bodily movement.
Gallery 302 widens the historical perspective by placing images from different generations together. LEE Ti-Chin’s outdoor portraits and DENG Nan-Guang’s outings, poised between documentation and arrangement, contrast with fashion photography by TSAI Jung-Li, LIN Tien-Fu and Joshua LIN. CHUANG Ling, CHANG Liang-I and LIN Hou-Jun add family perspectives. Moving from natural settings and popular media to intimate relationships makes it possible to compare how style in Taiwan accumulated across everyday and commercial imagery, rather than focusing solely on a season’s fashionable items.
From photographs back to wearable design
Gallery 303 offers a direct connection to clothing design. QUO Ying-Sheng’s graffiti and images of female bodies have inspired Jamei CHEN’s work, and the exhibition includes her scarves and custom garments. Attention moves from the photograph itself to the way an image becomes a design on fabric and then returns to the wearer’s body. Isa HO uses falling to place the body in a moment of imbalance, while Anna Yun-Ching HAN explores bodily traces as carriers of experience, further unsettling the elegant poses familiar from fashion imagery.
Color and drawn marks intervene in a photograph, creating different ways to read the body.
Gallery 305 focuses on people looking back at the camera. TSAI Ting-Bang invites subjects to meet its gaze, while CHOU Fang-Yu starts from intimate relationships. Nymph LEE, Manbo Key and LIN Chien-Wen’s collaboration enters the worlds of subculture and role-playing; LIU Yi-Chun explores shifts of identity between reality and imagination. For viewers accustomed to street style, styling projects or portraits, the subjects’ eyes, outfits and roles offer ways to reconsider who determines the self-image within a photograph.
The exhibition links clothing and intimate relationships through figures in everyday settings.
Free admission: when should you plan your visits?
The Taipei venue is at No. 70, Section 1, Zhongxiao West Road, Zhongzheng District, Taipei. Regular hours are Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00–18:00; it is closed on Mondays, and admission is free. The third floor can be visited from October 28. To include the second floor’s exploration of popular culture, social structures, digital imagery and AI, choose a date from November 11 until before the third-floor exhibition ends. Check the center’s closure and opening notice before setting out, distinguishing regular hours from this weather-related change.
