The Total Story

The Total Story is a psychedelic and immersive work by Taiwanese artist Su Hui-Yu, featuring installation, sculpture, painting, theatre, film, live broadcast, and artificial intelligence. The artist's practice centers on the concept of "re-filming": an aesthetic strategy that reinterprets historical materials to revisit taboos, misunderstood events, and cultural narratives from Taiwan.

With a hypersaturated, baroque, and overwhelming aesthetic, the exhibition transforms visitors into active participants in a universe where mass media becomes a tool for reimagining collective memory. This exhibition builds on The Trio Hall, a project presented at MoCA Taipei that explored the history of Taiwan through the re-shooting of historical TV programs, theatre pieces, and B-rated films. The project later evolved into a feature-length film, which premiered at the Berlinale 2025. For its iteration in Colombia, the project features local actors and draws from the history of soap opera, exoticization, eroticism, and colonial exploitation in the country — themes that resonate with Taiwanese history. The project weaves together memory, imagination, and resistance through immersive installations that merge archive, fiction, and performance.

Photography by Juan Yaruro. Courtesy of MAMBO