LIMBOPHOBIA – Immersion 2024

Wen-Yee Hsieh is a young artist from Taiwan, who poses questions about the relationship between visual art, and architecture. Fascinated by supernatural beings, his works reflect social phenomena and the mystery of life. HSIEH injected himself into works of art, that form a line of energy questioning the individual's state against the environment. Hsieh’s VR debut ”LIMBOTOPIA in VR” (2021) was nominated by 2022 Tribeca Festival, and won the Best VR Prize at 2022 AniFilm in the Czech Republic. In 2024, he was once again selected by 2024 Tribeca Festival Immersive section, creating the infinity mirror installations《THE GREAT FILTER》 and《INVISIBLE THEM》for the art museum Mercer Labs in New York. Hsieh’s second VR work, “LIMBOPHOBIA” (2024), was selected by several prominent European festivals, including SXSW London 2025, the Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF) 2024, and IDFA DocLab 2024. It was awarded Best VR Experience at ART*VR 2024 and received the Best Artistic Feature Award at DOME FEST WEST 2025 in the United States. In 2025, he was also invited to serve as jury member for the VR competition at the Sehsüchte International Film Festival in Germany. In 2025, Hsieh was selected for the 10th Biennale College Cinema - Immersive at the Venice International Film Festival. He was awarded the prestigious artist residency at CENTQUATRE-PARIS | Villa Formose for 2025. Hsieh founded WEN-E STUDIO, focusing more deeply on themes such as consciousness, spirituality, and the supernatural, while also collaborating with other artists in designing XR content. In 2021, he collaborated with artist WenChi Su on the work “Blackhole Museum + Body Browser”(2021), exploring how gravity in the physical world can be translated into the digital realm and influence human bodily perception. In 2025, the second collaboration with YILAB x WenChi Su on the VR project “Sensing Dark Matter”(2025) premiered at Asia TOPA 2025 in Melbourne.