RED CORAL PAVILION

This sculpture rises from the sand at the threshold of sea and shore—where land dissolves into waves and where the rare becomes familiar. Inspired by the vivid red corals found along Taiwan’s southeastern coast, this installation invites you into a woven landscape of metal, rope, and fabric, materials that shimmer with light, becoming translucent like sea foam or coral branches beneath the surface. The form offers both shelter and sight. Step inside, and you’re enveloped by the textures of the sea—while opening to a full 360-degree panorama of beach, ocean, and land. It is a space for reflection, shaped by nature’s rhythm and the artistry of human hands. Red corals are among the ocean’s most precious inhabitants, slow-growing, richly colored, and vital to marine biodiversity. Though their presence in the wild is increasingly rare, here in this region, the ocean sometimes gifts their remnants to the shore. These scattered traces are both beautiful and haunting, a reminder of the delicate balance within our ecosystems.​

This installation honors the coral’s dual nature, exceptionally rare, yet present. It celebrates the richness of marine life and urges us to see, protect, and cherish what lies just beneath the surface.

All the fabric is repurposed material donated by Yee Chain International Co.

This installation and its construction methods are original artistic expressions developed by Lua Rivera as part of the Rivera Rhizomatic Construction Method.