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In 1995, Taiwan participated in the Venice Biennale for the first time with an exhibition at the Palazzo delle Prigioni. Near the entrance to the venue, you will see the letter from that year's Biennale organizer inviting Taiwan to exhibit, thus marking the beginning of Taiwan's participation as a national pavilion. Next you will see documents related to important events, ephemera, and photographs, as well as some artwork from Taiwan’s exhibition history at the Biennale. Forming a living archive, the artworks have traveled through time and space to return to the venue, where they now can rewrite their own histories. As part of the Taipei Fine Arts Museum collection, these works not only represent the Museum, but also the close attention that each artist paid to body, action, and history.