During 1993–2015, Yiping Pong had travelled to over 50 different countries and developed her studies on the relationship between women and their families, society, social classes, ethnicities, histories, religions, socio-economy and cultures. This exhibition is aimed to discuss the coexistence structures of patriarchal politics and female-ruled spaces. This is also an experimental and multi-media-based exhibition specially designed for the Inter Art Center/Inter Gallery.

There’s a sentence from British novelist Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, that has deeply impressed Yiping Pong, “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” However, as Pong was unfolding her travel around the world, she had discovered a widespread phenomenon that most of the women didn’t have a chance to have a room of her own all the way through their lives. A great amount of them never have realized what it means to a woman to have a room of her own and how important it is.

For the past two decades, Pong has been focusing her researches and works on feminism. Her works include literature, photography, documentary, drama and installations. The exhibited 54 photographs and 21 films are inspired by the artist’s individual experiences during her voyage around the world. Pong has divided the space of Inter Gallery into 4 different parts that are led by 4 different themes: 18 photographs in 6 groups that depict the rooms of the women from all around the world; 9 pieces of documentaries which illuminate the rooms of the women from Taiwan, whereas the projection room plays the film work The Room of My Own which documents the room of the artist herself; 11 pieces of films titled as The Documentary of Rooms of the Women around the World will also be played in this space.

Through this exhibition, Yiping Pong wishes to reflect the symbolism of “female” as a social-related icon, as well as the way women construct their self images within their “spaces”; simultaneously, to deconstruct the social restrictions. Heroom means not only the women’s right and liberty, but also a world of their wildest dreams.

Yi-ping PONG graduated from the Department of History, National Taiwan University, and holds a Ph. D. from the Department of Cinema and Television, Institute of Plastic Arts, Universite Paris I – Pantheon – Sorbonne. She specializes in screenplay, documentary making and film study, and has conducted interdisciplinary artistic creation as an artist, photographer, author, curator, documentary, director, etc.