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Available
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Collection
Publication
Centre A - Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
Call number
EX.CAN.VAN.INC
Library's review
Catalogue for an exhibition held at Centre A from March 21 to April 27, 2003.
'Chen Chieh-Jen is showing a series of large format photographs, called Twelve Karmas Under the City. The images are of naked bodies violently sprawled in the underground pedestrian passageways of Taipei, spaces that are
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Yuan Goang-Ming presents a work called City Disqualified. It consists of a large format, high resolution, digital image depicting a dense urban landscape. Seen from a high angle, wide boulevards, lights, wires and street signs, a forest of advertising and giant video billboards mark this as an important intersection in a large Asian city. Normally this scene would be bustling with people and cars but somehow they all seem to have vanished. The artist took over a hundred photographs of this place during a one month period and, using a computer, combined them in such a way that all the people and cars were erased. Although it looks perfectly coherent, the resulting image is in fact a composite of hundreds of fragments.'
(Abstract source: http://www.centrea.org)
'Chen Chieh-Jen is showing a series of large format photographs, called Twelve Karmas Under the City. The images are of naked bodies violently sprawled in the underground pedestrian passageways of Taipei, spaces that are
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most often occupied by daily commuters. These disturbing pictures raise a number of questions. What is taking place here? Is it disease, war, a terrorist attack or some strange cyborg mutation? Like a scene from Dante’s Inferno, this portrayal of sublime human suffering also offers clues to redemption. Only after you know the truth of Karma, accepting your fate, are your granted the free will to do something about it.(...)
Yuan Goang-Ming presents a work called City Disqualified. It consists of a large format, high resolution, digital image depicting a dense urban landscape. Seen from a high angle, wide boulevards, lights, wires and street signs, a forest of advertising and giant video billboards mark this as an important intersection in a large Asian city. Normally this scene would be bustling with people and cars but somehow they all seem to have vanished. The artist took over a hundred photographs of this place during a one month period and, using a computer, combined them in such a way that all the people and cars were erased. Although it looks perfectly coherent, the resulting image is in fact a composite of hundreds of fragments.'
(Abstract source: http://www.centrea.org)
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