TOP TO BOTTOM, from (“Stages“) © Shen Chao-Liang, 2006-2009 “The stage is a concrete physical place which asks to be filled, and to be given its own concrete language to speak.” – Antonin Artaud, The Theater And Its Double Taiwanese photographer Shen Chao-Liang documented elaborate stages often found in his native country. These stages are [...]
TOP TO BOTTOM, from (“Circumgyration“) © Chen Chin-pao, 2004 Chen Chin-Pao taught in an elementary school for a decade (while completing a BFA from SVA, New York) and his series on Circumgyration caught my eye. On first glance, you would think that these were documentary shots of daily school life in a Taiwanese school. Upon [...]
TOP TO BOTTOM, from (“Taiwan Workers“) © Garret M Clarke Focusing on manual laborers in Southern Taiwan, American-born photographer Garret Clarke has produced a body of work that looks at fishermen, ice factory workers, meat workers and farmers. From the salt of the earth cometh our daily sustenance. A rare look behind the rough and [...]
Got this in my mail today for a visual art exhibition in New York. Unfortunately, I’m halfway across the globe! ChinaSquare Gallery New York is pleased to present Germinators, a group featuring Cao Jingping, Chen Wei, Li Jikai, Liao Yibai, Ma’chunfu, Qu Jiehen, Unmask, Wang Haiyang, Wang Tiantian, Wang Yaqiang, and Zhang Peng. Germinators includes [...]
Born in Taiwan, Rona Chang emigrated with her family to the States when she was a child. Filled with wanderlust and driven by the “cumulative effect of people on their environments”, she traveled to various parts of Asia to document “an extended portrait of society”. From the series, Urban Scale From the series, Water Management From the series, [...]
The F Blog posted some images of Chinese and Vietnamese fishermen in Taiwan by photojournalist Liang-I Chang. Check it out.
Yao Jui Chung is a multi-talented artist/curator from Taiwan. His works have traveled around the world and there is good reason for that. His works are ‘built around the political themes of power struggles and domination, and the deterioration of culture in a global scale’. © Yao Jui Chung – Heaven © Yao Jui Chung [...]
