Idas Losin to become Taiwan's 2nd Indigenous artist at Sydney Biennale

Taipei, March 8 (CNA) Taiwanese oil painter Idas Losin will be the second Indigenous artist from Taiwan to participate in the Biennale of Sydney, titled "Ten Thousand Suns" which will run from Saturday to June 10.

The 48-year-old artist from the Truku and Atayal tribes in Hualien County follows in the footsteps of Aluaiy Kaumakan (武玉玲), who attended the last edition of the Australian event, one of the three biggest international art biennales in the world.

The other two are the Venice and São Paulo biennales.

Idas Losin's murals will be exhibited at the entry of the UNSW Galleries at the biennale, for which she reorganized three pieces of artwork related to Easter Island (Rapa Nui) to represent the Moai statues and Rongorongo, a unique kind of hieroglyph.

The work belongs to her "sunglasses series," which features portraits of people with no countenances wearing a pair of sunglasses and allows viewers to see what is reflected in it.

The other Taiwanese participant in the event is Li Jiun-Yang (李俊陽), "whose artistic practice are infused with elements of folk culture, diverse religious representations and street art aesthetics from Taiwan," according to the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Sydney.