Bopiliao Historical Block no.147&149, Taipei
Bopiliao Historical Block no.147&149, Taipei
Bopiliao Historical Block no.147&149, Taipei
Bopiliao Historical Block no.147&149, Taipei
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2022 Solo Exhibition
Duration | 2022. Dec. 10. ~ 2023. Jan. 08.
Location | Bopiliao Historical Block no. 147&149, Taipei, Taiwan
> Special Thanks
Si Qi HOU, Chia Chen CHANG, Xiu Jie ZHAO, Xin Zhe JIAN, Cheng Yin HAN, Yun Qi LU, Li-Ba Mobile, Chiayi City Government, Carrefour Chiayi, Kengting Amanda Hotel, and my family.
> “A Beautiful Day” Crew
Directed & Written by | Ting Chen CHANG
Director of Photography | Jeng You HONG, Ting Chen CHANG
Assistant Camera | Wei Jia LI
Gaffer | Guan Yan HUANG
Editor | Ting Chen CHANG
3D animator | Ting Chen CHANG
Installation Designer | Wei Ting LIN
Coder | Pei Yu ZHAO
Opening the drawer in my house where the family photos were. Picking up, feeling, soothing, turning, straightening, stacking, then putting down. Sights and thoughts traveled to and flowed between the boundaries of the frame. My fingers rubbed the surface of the printing paper to feel the age. Those same movements are performed over and over again at different stages of life. Again, pick it up_before placing it. Perceive and immerse myself in the daily needs that transcend memory and reality, meaning and materiality.
Therefore, the flow of all consciousness invariably starts from a developed photograph or an image that can be taken. To take care of, to conjecture, to imagine.
A Beautiful Day
2022
Double-channel video / Power machinery installation
30’55’’, color, sound / 360x25x100cm
⎕ A photo of my mother sitting on a grassy slope
The graduation trip took place in the 1980s, which also happened to be the year of the lifting of martial law in Taiwan. It was a lovely day, and the weather looked glorious. The Grass and sky shone almost golden. My mother was facing the camera with her hands resting between her knees, sitting gracefully in the shade of trees. Perhaps the person who took this picture was also on the side of the trees. In the distance, beyond my mother, there was a woman in a one-piece dress and a sun hat upright, standing straight and staring far away.
I think she was undoubtedly staring at me because I saw her too.
This photo has kept an impression on my heart since I met her. I often think that staring at photos is like a process of confirming a relationship. We grope the distance, perspective, and position between us, and establish the way to look at each other, and then look for the opportunity to be appropriate.
☐☐ Two blank square canvases glued to the wall
Bopiliao was a place that had experienced expropriation, eviction, stagnation, reconstruction, placement, and reopening between the 1990s and 2000s. People who used to live here had left, and dwellings were thus as empty as new. The “collage-like spatial configuration” now lost the connection with the old times, also the original context is missing. Culture and the neighborhood's texture in this district are no longer present. It's a challenge to find the entrance to the past in this place. However, it has also become my desire.
Two blank square canvases were glued to the wall which was for projecting the introductory video of the Taipei Film Festival. These Two blank squares are designed to cover the holes in the wall. But under the subtle illumination of the projected light, both are unexpectedly independent and objective. The boundaries between canvases and the wall provide the essential to let the ever-changing images linger briefly. I think they are my entrances.
Slicing, Patching, Clipping, Crossing
2022
Site Specific
Digital prints (canvas) / Found objects / Single-channel video
20x20cm, 20 pieces in total / Dimension Variable / 1'00" loop
﹅ Vertical and Horizontal
Album, frame, screen, window… Generating an image is a matter of touching the boundaries in the frame, and consistently gathering samples back and forth. Some things fit into a horizontal frame, while others need to be seen in a vertical way. The crying baby was lying on the bed; the girl standing on the Peace Memorial Stone is in a vertical composition, that strange woman in the background may no longer exist; my mother might be standing straight before sitting on the grassy slope, right?
Being Right, To Be Loved
2022
Family photos / Lightbox
8.9x12.7cm, 4 pieces in total; 10.2x15.2cm, 2 pieces in total/ 40x45x12cm
