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A Solo Exhibition by CHEN Yung-Hsien |
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One in a Loop |
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Nowadays it is no news to see an artist getting naked for art’s sake. This time, new media artist CHEN Yung-Hsien will strip off the clothes of the ordinary everyman in his solo exhibition “One in a Loop.” The concept of the exhibit is to parallel people’s habitual activities with their bodies in daily role play by presenting a visual contrast. Among the works in the exhibition, the one themed on a gallery manager peeled off his professional attire is the most amusing of all. Looking at the juxtaposed images of the manager in naked and the same person in suit within the space of a gallery, it makes one wonder whether it is a way of the artist to create a burlesque of Taiwan’s feverish art market.
Chen’s 2005 solo exhibition “The Song of Body” at Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, used videos and photographs to present transformed concepts of the body and the physical appearance of humans. In the exhibition, the artist used his body as the subject of art and the audience’s gaze and contemplation projected onto the body became an integral part of art representation.
This year, Chen once again explores the concepts of body appearance in order to discover “the different levels of body phenomenology.” Furthermore, the artist aims to “use the injured body as an example to exemplify how the connection between reason and perception could be distorted and interrupted when an injury occurs.”(See Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception)
The word “loop” in “One in A Loop” refers to the loop in a computer program, a term which means “enclosed circles.” The fleeting moments composed of routines, facial expressions, body movements, and mundane activities in daily life are always rotating and shifting. The day-to-day scenarios may seem real on the surface. However, they are constantly remixed, forwarded, backwarded, and arranged in a random and oblivious way, forming a “loop” of the body.
People’s habitual movement patterns are repetitive and full of similarities. Body movements, conscious or unconscious, are connected with self-reflexivity and are therefore a continual circle of the representation of instant human behaviors.
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(Translation: Hsu Tienning)
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