Public art and the urban appearance of Taipei City always have an inseparable relationship. Since the passing of the Regulations Governing the Installation of Public Artwork at 1998, art not only walked in to various public spaces with various forms and mediums, but also reduces the distance between the public and art. At the same time, due to the activation of the Tamsui Line of MRT, the range along Taipei Main Station and Zongshan Station became the earliest public art installation area. Moreover, the urban landscape and industrial succession since the construction to the activation of the MRT became an important chapter in the Taipei development history, and within the transition of new and old, the “2016 Taipei Land Art Public Art Project” followed this thread and set the topic as “Seeing the Unseen” to guide the public “meeting the unseen Taipei.


