Sailing Castle Ren’ai
2023
Sailing Castle Ren’ai
In his Sailing Castle series, artist Cheng Tsung FENG reimagines the appearance of cities as if they were fleets of ships gathered at sea. Through large-scale installation art, he captures the silhouettes of surrounding buildings and transforms them into poetic impressions that weave together time, space, and memory.
Ren’ai Village in Taipei, the site of this work, is a neighborhood that flourished in the 1970s as a showcase for many of Taiwan’s leading architects. Its residential buildings reflect the influence of Bauhaus and modernist design, with clean lines and simplified forms expressed through repeating grids of windows. At the Taiwan Lantern Festival, FENG extends his Sailing Castle concept, translating the clustered urban landscape of Ren’ai Village into the vision of sails assembled across the sea.
The installation employs meticulously arranged wooden structures, layered to resemble a field of overlapping sails. These sails rise in orderly repetition, echoing the rhythm and proportion of Ren’ai Village’s mid-century apartment blocks. The interplay of vertical and horizontal elements conveys both architectural discipline and nautical motion, suggesting a cityscape that is also a fleet in waiting. By day, the installation reads as a sculptural abstraction of familiar buildings. By night, lights shimmer randomly between the sails, evoking the glow of windows that animate urban life—moments of work, leisure, solitude, and community, all flickering within the shared frame of the city.
Situated within Dunren Park, a beloved gathering place for local residents, FENG’s work functions not only as a stage-like structure but also as a communal landmark. Visitors are invited to pause, walk through, and inhabit this poetic reconstruction of their everyday surroundings. It becomes a ritual site where personal memories meet collective history, where the city’s architectural past resonates with its present rhythms.
To board the ship, to raise the sail, to meet the wind, and to set forth toward the sea—this installation speaks of both departure and return. In the glowing sails of Sailing Castle: Ren’ai, the city itself becomes a vessel, carrying its people home.
2023 | Taiwan Lantern Festival in Taipei｜02/05-02/19 | Beacons of Light Display Zone｜Dunren Park | Taipei
organizer｜Tourism Administration, MOTC, Taipei City Government
curator｜Hu’s Art
artist｜Cheng Tsung FENG
project designer｜Chan Wei HSU, Yin Chun WONG
structural analysis｜ Chien Chuan Engineering Consulting Co.
woodwork｜Weige Interior Design
lighting design｜Oude Light
lighting engineer｜Beamtec Lighting
photography｜FIXER Photographic Studio
2023
仁愛帆城
在《帆城》系列作品中，藝術家范承宗將建築聚集而成的城市面貌，與海上船隻船帆聚集的景緻聯想在一起，並透過藝術裝置創作，捕捉基地周遭建築的集合輪廓，凝聚成時代與空間的詩意印象。
台北市仁愛里是台北市70年代知名建築師們的住宅作品競技場，建築表情深受包浩斯與現代主義影響，在重複的集合窗格中表現出簡約與俐落。此次在台灣燈會，范承宗延續他的帆城系列創作，將建築聚集而成的城市面貌，視為如海上聚集船隻的景緻。
以規律整齊的木作結構，張起層層疊疊的船帆，形成仁愛里常見的集合住宅量體印象。每排船帆交錯排列，創造出秩序的美感，詮釋水平垂直向度裡，建築林立有致的輪廓。在夜裡，層層船帆之間的燈光會隨機動態地閃爍亮暗，再現城市中燈火通明的生活百態。范承宗在仁愛里民日常生活裡最熟悉的敦仁公園，搭起一座讓人駐足、穿梭的儀式裝置，成為眾人團結相聚以及城市新舊記憶疊合的所在。
登上船，揚起帆，迎著風，邁向大海，我們出發，我們回家。
2023 | 台灣燈會在台北｜02/05-02/19 | 光展區｜敦仁公園
主辦單位｜交通部觀光局、台北市政府
策展單位｜胡氏藝術
藝術家｜范承宗
專案設計｜許展維、翁穎諄
結構分析｜建全工程顧問
實木構築｜唯格室內
照明設計｜偶得設計
照明工程｜承易 - 丞逸照明
攝影｜定影影像