Solo Exhibition – Casper Ji

Near-colourless paintings explore how images remain perceptible and meaningful after pigment fades.

Casper Ji Solo Exhibition presents a series of near-colourless paintings. Formed through repeated acts of compression, accumulation, and transfer, pigment is pushed through the canvas, leaving subtle reliefs and shifting images on both sides of the surface. As viewers move around the works, the images gradually appear, recede, and transform, creating a slow and unstable viewing experience. The exhibition raises a simple question: what remains when a colour disappears from everyday life? Even when the images are no longer distinct, their traces continue to exist through perception.

Ji treats the canvas as a material object in its own right rather than simply a support for an image, allowing traces of pressure, density, and movement to become part of the work. As the pigment dries and expands, it preserves marks of contact and force, offering a material response to things that are difficult to preserve, such as memory, attachment, time, and loss.

Rooted in the artist’s longing for the beauty of everyday life, the works also respond to the uncertainty embedded within it. The repeated appearance and disappearance of images reflects the relationship between presence and absence, continuity and change. Through the tension between what can be seen and what remains unseen, the exhibition invites viewers to consider how meaning can be extended and retained even as an image gradually fades away.

Casper is a Taiwanese interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans painting, material exploration, and audience perception. He is currently pursuing an M.Litt. in Contemporary Art Practice at the Glasgow School of Art, with an expected graduation in 2026. Since 2019, his work has been exhibited internationally across Scotland, Spain, France, Switzerland, and Taiwan. His artwork Private Conversation received the Jury Prize at the 11th Painting and Sculpture Competition in Spain and was subsequently exhibited at the European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM).More recently, his solo exhibition in Scotland received full project funding from both the Eaton Foundation (UK) and the Glasgow School of Art Sustainability Fund. The project also led to a commercial collaboration with the Scottish beer brand Brewgooder.