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Germinators

yaohong — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:15:19 +0000

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 the work of 11 up-and-coming artists from China and Taiwan, whose work deeply addresses and begins to strip bare the reality of the radical change and societal restructuring that is playing out across the domestic landscape today. Much like a seed nestled deep within the earth that gradually sends out shoots struggling to break free in pursuit of the sun, the work presented in Germinators is equally engaged in the germination of a wholly new social landscape that grows in leaps and bounds as it both analyzes that growth and becomes part of it in equal measure.

Visit the gallery’s website for more information.

Rona Chang

yaohong — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 07:13:08 +0000

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, Men
[all images © Rona Chang]

Do take look at her other work on her website

Liang-I Chang

yaohong — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:10:31 +0000

The F Blog posted some images of Chinese and Vietnamese fishermen in Taiwan by photojournalist Liang-I Chang. Check it out.

Yao Jui Chung

yaohong — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 03:38:40 +0000

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’.

More stuff on his exhibitions here and here.