Cai Ruei-Heng (b.1989) studied M.F.A Department of Fine Arts at Taipei National University of the Arts in 2018, who currently lives and works in Taipei. Cai started to think about the differences between dogs and himself, after his dog left him alone. Dogs are inspirations of his works, he tried to imagine himself being a dog as he wants to understand more about dogs’ behaviors and how they react and express themselves.

My paintings process a renewed combination of collapsed worlds, angering about inability to change the status of self, and turning into a rogue-like blend.These disintegration are not only entirely from myself, but also usually composed by media and imagination.The work shows those feelings that the "incompetent" is collided by the huge mechanical gears of the real world, being torn, destroyed, being crushed.Incompetent people are broken, crashed, and swayed by impact, and ineffective panic.Social systems and rules have triggered a sense of chaos in my life, and this sense of chaos has formed a disintegration and laceration.I reorganized on the image and tried to respond with a different tone from reality in paintings.The picture is often chaotic and comical, confusing and unintelligible feelings that people feel about life.

My work mainly describes what kind of emotional and spiritual state the nobody in daily life has, in this country full of contradictions and double standards?
I tried to give imagination and present in painting. Under this socialized survival mode, I have been constantly disintegrating and reorganizing, and what kind of attitude and perspective I am faced with.In my paintings, I want to express the state of being an incompetent person because of the system. A state of rapid fall in life and reaches a kind of stall, and then shows a state of rest. I am well aware that the overall social system and machines are too large for me to proposing any change. I feel as if it is the best state at this stage I have, and it seems a problem of myself for being a bad product in the society. After knowing the unchangeable world, I realize that I am an incompetent person. After all, the incompetent people can only release the energy in their body and mind in various absurd.

Honor
2015 Finalist, ART OLYMPIA
2015 Selected Works, YILAN AWARDS

Solo Exhibition
2018 Bad DOG, Telling Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
2016 The body is More Honest, T H Z GALLERY, Taipei, Taiwan
2015 Exile - Run Away, Insomnia Cafe, Taipei, Taiwan
2014 Inverse 'Drowning' Lake, Artland Bookstore, Taipei, Taiwan

Group Exhibition
2018 Dream Maker, Cerulean Art Colony, Keelung, Taiwan
2018 TIME CAPSULE, Telling Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
2016 Somatosensory Scenery, T H Z GALLERY, Taipei, Taiwan
2016 Demon Mountain Plot, Nan-Pei Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2016 Indigestion, Elsa Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2016 Taiwan Annual, EXPO Dome, Taipei, Taiwan
2015 Young Art Kaohsiung, The Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2015 ART OLYMPIA, Tokyo, Japan
2015 Yilan Art Exhibition, Sky Gallery, Yilan, Taiwan
2014 Three in One Tea, Unique Art, Taipei, Taiwan