This Spring of 2017, the Haohaus gallery invited the artist – Chun-Fu Ma to hold his exhibition-Offspring Worship: A Solo Exhibition of Chun-Fu Ma. He graduated from Graduate School of New Media, National Taipei University of Arts, and also, he was a versatile artist who is good at painting, sculpture, installation, new media, in many different ways. He also expected that he can play multiple meanings, such as a social observer, a cultural thinker, and a history interpreter at the same time.
Ma’s paintings focused on the topic about a series of a model by his child for the purpose to explain the cultural phenomenon that the traditional “ancestral worship” is now becoming “:offspring worship”. Ma’s issues discussed in the family and socio-cultural changes may be serious, but his distinct style is rather warm and humorous. The child he pictured was always innocent and happy, playing a character repeatedly in a kind of little ancestors with iconic totem. This works reflected parent’s overprotection and expectation, on the other hand, implied the new family’s system and frame was brought about in these days.