10/07/2026
🎈新展報到 🎈
成為張姐 蔡定邦個展
Becoming Zhang-jie
A Story of Migration, Motherhood and Reinvention
Ting-Bang Tsai Solo Exhibition
☉展覽資訊
2026.7.18 Sat. ~ 2026.8.17 Mon.
好地下藝術空間｜Goodunderground Art Space
地址｜台灣花蓮市節約街37號B1
B1F, No.37, jieyue St., Hualien City, Taiwan
每周五~一 Fri. to Mon.｜12:00 ─ 20:00
» 開幕及座談Opening&Artist Talk｜7.18 Sat. 14:00-16:00
藝術家Artist｜蔡定邦 Ting-Bang Tsai
策展人Curator｜傅爾得 Joanna Fu
☉策展論述
文／策展人 傅爾得
過去三十年，台灣社會不斷改變對越南婚姻移民的稱呼：從「越南新娘」到「外籍配偶」，再到「新住民」。語言看似愈來愈周全，卻仍常停在她們如何來到台灣、如何進入婚姻與家庭，很少繼續追問：在這些身份之後，她們經歷了什麼，又如何在現實中一步一步改變自己的位置。
《成為張姐》正是從這個問題開始。藝術家蔡定邦透過拍攝、靠近、回望與理解母親，回到她近五十年人生中那些長期被家庭記憶與社會稱呼遮蔽的部分。「張姐」十九歲嫁到台灣，後來在婚姻、遷移、勞動、親密關係、生意往來與一次次對機會的追逐中，逐漸從「越南新娘」這個社會標籤裡走出來，成為人們願意與她談事情、做買賣、交付信任，並稱她為「張姐」的人。
相較於「越南新娘」這類外界加諸於群體的模糊標籤，「張姐」則是一個在現實關係裡反覆磨礪出來的稱呼。它來自飯局、談判、合同、貨物、人情與信任的往來，也在一次次周旋、判斷、冒險與承擔之中逐漸有了份量。這個稱呼未必精確，甚至帶著一點江湖氣與曖昧，卻比「母親」、「妻子」或「新住民」，更接近她後來真正走出的人生。
展覽以「張姐」近百張不同時期的肖像為核心，從少女、婚禮、台灣生活，延伸到返越經商，展開她近五十年的人生旅程。照片在四面牆上形成一條影像長河，不斷推開觀眾對某一特定時期形成的單一判斷。金色、玻璃紙、紙箱、反光鏡面與鋪設在地面的傷口影像，則讓財富、體面、賭性、遷移、親情創傷與代價，都在觀看中彼此纏繞。
展覽《成為張姐》所呈現的，是一個兒子試圖理解母親的過程，也是張姐成為張姐的過程。
Written by Curator Joanna Fu
Over the past three decades, the language used in Taiwan to describe Vietnamese marriage migrants has continued to change: from “Vietnamese bride” to “foreign spouse,” and later to “new resident.” Each term appears more careful than the last, yet the questions often remain fixed at the point of arrival: how these women came to Taiwan, how they entered marriage and family, and how they adapted to a new life. Far less is asked about what came after these identities: what they lived through, and how they gradually changed their position within the realities they inhabited.
Becoming Zhang-jie begins with this question. Through photography, proximity, recollection, and an attempt to understand his mother, Ting-Bang Tsai returns to the parts of her nearly fifty-year life that have long been obscured by family memory and social naming. Married to Taiwan at nineteen, Zhang-jie moved through marriage, migration, labour, intimacy, business, and the repeated pursuit of opportunity. Over time, she moved beyond the social label of the “Vietnamese bride” and became someone people would negotiate with, trade with, entrust with responsibility, and call “Zhang-jie.”
Compared with broad labels imposed from outside, “Zhang-jie” is a form of address forged through lived relationships. It emerges from meals, negotiations, contracts, goods, favours, and the circulation of trust. Through repeated acts of judgement, risk, compromise, and responsibility, the name gradually acquired weight. Informal, imperfect, and touched by a certain worldly ambiguity, it comes closer than “mother,” “wife,” or “new resident” to the life she eventually made for herself.
At the centre of the exhibition are nearly one hundred portraits of Zhang-jie, spanning different stages of her life: youth, marriage, her years in Taiwan, and her return to Vietnam as a businesswoman. Installed across four walls as a continuous river of images, the photographs unsettle any single reading formed by the viewer. Gold, translucent film, cardboard boxes, mirrored surfaces, and wound images placed on the floor bring wealth, respectability, risk, migration, familial trauma, and cost into the same field of looking.
Becoming Zhang-jie presents the process of a son trying to understand his mother, and the process by which Zhang-jie came to be known as Zhang-jie.
☉同步展出
第三屆香港攝影小誌及樣本書獎巡迴展
3rd Hong Kong Photobook Dummy Award
2025香港攝影小誌及樣本書獎得獎及入圍作品
» 延伸活動｜2026.7.19 Sun. 14:00-14:45
攝影小誌獎(學生組)入圍者作品分享
分享人：鄭思璡Sze-Chun Cheng、賴宣穎Hsuan-Ying Lai
☉藝術家簡介
蔡定邦 Ting-Bang Tsai
1999年生於台灣，父親為台灣人，母親為越南人，自幼在台灣接受教育到國小畢業，後隨因家庭關係回到越南。因家庭因素中斷學業，自學影像、哲學、藝術等。
逐步建立個人攝影作品，以家庭、身邊的人為，主要關注對象。2024年，以代表作《本是同根生》獲得巴黎光圈攝影獎（Paris Photo Aperture Award），同年，亦榮獲新加坡攝影書獎（Singapore Photo Book Award），《水噹噹的金雲阿姨》獲得2025年哈蘇基金會贊助獎金（Hasselblad Foundation Photo Book Grants ）。
Born in Taiwan in 1999 to a Taiwanese father and a Vietnamese mother, Ting-Bang Tsai grew up and went to school in Taiwan until graduating from elementary school, after which he moved back to Vietnam due to family circumstances. Later, because of family factors, his formal education was interrupted, leading him to become self-taught in photography, philosophy, and art.
He gradually built up his personal photographic work, focusing primarily on his family and those around him. In 2024, his signature work”Born of the Same Root” won the Paris Photo Aperture Award. That same year, he was also honored with the Singapore Photo Book Award. In 2025, his work “Glamorous Aunt JIN YUN”received the Hasselblad Foundation Photo Book Grant.
平面視覺設計 Graphic Designer｜周芳伃 Fang-Yu Chou
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主辦單位Organizer｜好地下藝術空間Good Underground Art Space
合辦單位Co-organizer｜ 1 IMAGE ART 一影像 、攝影上桌PHOTO GO、 香港攝影書節 Hong Kong Photobook Festival
組織營運及展覽贊助Sponsor｜國藝會NCFA
創作計畫受教育部青年百億圓夢計畫贊助
This project is supported by the Taiwan Global Pathfinders Initiative, Ministry of Education.
