Looking Back, a Place of Gathering

Artist hewen a ta:in tawtawazay is of the Saisiyat descent from kahkahoe'an in Miaoli. She holds an MFA from Taipei National University of the Arts. Through her practice, she strives to open up a pathway leading to her native home. In 2015, she began looking for the path, her name, and self through cultural-historical reexamination and field research on her family history, and was eventually able to complete her Saisiyat name – hewen a ta:in tawtawazay in 2020. In the same year, she launched the art project, lohizaw – Revisiting the Saisiyat Migratory Route, and has endeavored in making herself a cultural learner until today. She is the recipient of the Grand Prize (visual arts) at the Pulima Art Award (2020), the Next Art Tainan (2019), and the First Prize at the Taoyuan Contemporary Art Award (2018).