KG＋｜Guan-Jie Huang Solo Exhibition ”iPhone Mixtape: A Collection of Images 2021- 2025”

Guan-Jie Huang

May 2 - May 17, 2026

In 2018, an unexpected accident during a data backup caused me to lose more than two years’ worth of photographs stored on my phone. This painful experience prompted me to reflect on the relationship between humans and their phones as tools. Mobile phones have become inseparable from modern life, and losing those two years of images felt equivalent to losing two years of my own memories.

This incident also led me to confront the question of storage media. The works in this exhibition extend my ongoing Americano series, which was inspired by “landscapes in Taiwan that resemble America.” In this new body of work, I borrow the concept of the A-side and B-side of a cassette tape.

The A-side presents images that appear American, even though they were encountered in Taiwan, while the B-side features images I had previously excluded—those that do not look American.The works that “do not look American,” which had never been exhibited before, are presented through a display method reminiscent of the inside covers of a book, as well as through five photobooks housed in a cassette tape–shaped box.

In this way, images that had long existed only within my iPhone—considered “not artworks”—emerge within the exhibition space.

Text｜Guan-Jie Huang
Japanese Editing｜Mu-Wei Huang