Curator / writer with a background in literature, art history, activist, curatorial studies. Interested in formulating conceptual ways of seeing and discursive events crossing art and reality. Many of her projects focuses on interplays of sensibility, body, institution & memory, driven by the curiosity to explore human conditions, boundaries of knowing and how art embodies and exceeds our imagination to address various concerns toward humanity, culture and relevance of life. Esther was the director of Taipei Contemporary Art Center (2015 – 7), the curator of This is not a Taiwan Pavilion – collateral event in the 55th Venice Biennale.
從事策展與寫作;長期關注於觀念性的策展實踐,尋求體制內外連結的契機,於現實社會場景與藝術再現的平台間和生產後台,梳理另類的生產關係創造政治能動性。其策展重視方法學,關注美學生產過程的思辨如何展開更多元和開放的聯繫和運動,以抽象和包容的語言來回應和反思當下不穩定的全球環境,並參與對未來人類身體和社會建構的想像。曾任台北當代藝術中心總監(2015~7)、第55th屆威尼斯雙年展《這不是台灣館》策展人等。