Jia Dong (Vision of Taiwan), 2011
Photography : pigment ink · 60 x 90 x 0.3 cm 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.1 inch
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The “Vision of Taiwan” series of images expresses personal observations, experiences and opinions of the environment of Taiwan.
“Photography” has been a means for me to find emotional relief.
For the photographing process, I stood inside a space and photographed myself with long exposure by flashing my face with multiple flashes using a handheld flashlight. The intense flashes enable the releasing of emotion, and the property of photosensitive materials that accumulates light and allows “over exposure” to be produced in an “out of control” manner and causes temporary “blindness” or “lost of sight” in human faces, and beyond the visual aesthetics in the visual expression form the “environmental” issues and the conflicting perception of “aesthetics” hidden behind the visual perspectives, insinuating the absurdity and conflicts that exist in the environment.
Behind the seemingly image of a beautiful scenery hides absurd objects and environmental crisis. A “human figure billboard” faces the public indifferently without any facial expressions. The face of existing environmental seems to have lost the “real world” into a vacuum of the situation, therefore one can only “look without seeing” when facing current situations in the surroundings.
The “Vision of Taiwan” series offers views from the “documentary photography” aspects of recognition of the relations between humans and our surroundings and the “surrealism” aspects of calm criticism. Although it does show a certain level of disappointment and pessimism toward the current state of Taiwan’s environment, but it still holds an ideal of expectation of “life reform”.
“Photography” has been a means for me to find emotional relief.
For the photographing process, I stood inside a space and photographed myself with long exposure by flashing my face with multiple flashes using a handheld flashlight. The intense flashes enable the releasing of emotion, and the property of photosensitive materials that accumulates light and allows “over exposure” to be produced in an “out of control” manner and causes temporary “blindness” or “lost of sight” in human faces, and beyond the visual aesthetics in the visual expression form the “environmental” issues and the conflicting perception of “aesthetics” hidden behind the visual perspectives, insinuating the absurdity and conflicts that exist in the environment.
Behind the seemingly image of a beautiful scenery hides absurd objects and environmental crisis. A “human figure billboard” faces the public indifferently without any facial expressions. The face of existing environmental seems to have lost the “real world” into a vacuum of the situation, therefore one can only “look without seeing” when facing current situations in the surroundings.
The “Vision of Taiwan” series offers views from the “documentary photography” aspects of recognition of the relations between humans and our surroundings and the “surrealism” aspects of calm criticism. Although it does show a certain level of disappointment and pessimism toward the current state of Taiwan’s environment, but it still holds an ideal of expectation of “life reform”.
Presentation
Born in Pingtung, Taiwan in 1965, Wu Cheng-Chang graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2000.
He is currently teaching at the Department of Visual Communication Design, Ling-Tung University in Taichung, Taiwan.
He worked as a photojournalist and photographer at Business Weekly, Taiwan Daily News, Brother Pro-Baseball Magazine and Formosa Plastics Group.
He has won many awards including 2014 Observer's Award and Excellent Work Award in New Media of Kaohsiung Awards, 2012 Grand Prize of Creative Award of Visual Art, 2011 Grand Award of China Lishui International Photography Cultural Festival, 2010 Grand Prize of The Power of Self an image competition (Artists Wanted, New York) and 2009 the Honorable Mention Award of Taipei Arts Awards etc.
He has been invited to exhibit his works at the 2018 London Design Biennale, University Art Museum at Tokyo University of the Arts, Gwangju Museum of Art in Korea, 2012 Singapore International Photography Festival, 2012 Hong Kong International Art Fair, 2011 FOTOSEPTIEMBRE USA-SAFOTO International Photography Festival, 2011 China Lishui International Photography Cultural Festival, 2010 2nd Dali International Photography Exhibition, 2010 3rd Novosibirsk International Festival of Contemporary Photography and 2010 Taiwan Biennial etc.
His works have been collected by the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan; the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan; the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; the National Center of Photography, Taipei, Taiwan; the Art Bank Taiwan, Taichung, Taiwan; the Cultural Affairs Bureau, Pingtung, Taiwan; the Cultural Affairs Bureau, Taichung, Taiwan.
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