Beyond looking
A photograph preserves an encounter and opens a question. From Human and Nature to the military sites of Matsu, direction, position and distance become part of what an image asks us to consider.
Human and Nature
ABOUT THE ARTIST
張靖驩Ching-Huan Chang
Beginning with photography, exploring the relationships between people, places and ways of seeing.
Born in Taiwan and based in Taipei, Chang works primarily with photography. He examines its use under different social conditions and its effects on thought, perception and interaction.
PRIMARY MEDIUMPhotographyBASED INTaipei, Taiwan
PERSPECTIVES
Photography as a method
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
“For me, photography is a process, method or tool for pursuing truth or progress. It is one means of artistic expression, while also inherently possessing a documentary quality.”Ching-Huan Chang, Concepts · translated excerpt
CURATORIAL READING
Three readings developed from the works.
Landscape as a relationship
Dovecotes, orchards and old buildings are not isolated objects. Read alongside oral accounts, categories and spatial histories, landscapes reveal relationships built between people and places over time.
Madou Archive PhotographyImages as encounters
The Gentle People of Siwen brings daily experiences into a photographic novel. Image-making becomes a shared process in which who tells a story, and how they are seen, matters as much as the photograph.
The Gentle People of SiwenCHRONOLOGY
Works & exhibitions
2024Photographic novel · Handmade four-fold book · Participatory artView2023Giclée print, wooden frameView2021–2022Site-specific installation · Visual interventionView2020Photography · Video · Handwritten textView2019PhotographyView2018–2019Photography · Lightboxes · Booklets · ExhibitionView2017Photography · Oral accounts and landscape researchView2016Landscape photographyView
The Gentle People of Siwen
Presented in The Shape of Home: Stories of Arrival and Encounter, a participatory art exhibition, 20 July–25 August 2024.
Ching-Huan Chang, in collaboration with people connected to Siwen
Before they are uprooted
11 November 2023–6 January 2024; curated by Chen Hsuan-Cheng.
Ching-Huan Chang
The Sunset before the Relief of a Sentry
Part of Listening to the Voices of the Island, Matsu Biennial 2022: Island Brew.
Ching-Huan Chang × Chia-Sheng Wang
A Steady Gaze Falls on the Island
2022 Matsu Biennial · Nangan Folk Culture Museum; part of 傾聽島嶼的聲音.
Ching-Huan Chang × Chia-Sheng Wang
Human and Nature
Photographic work, 2019.
Ching-Huan Chang
Madou Archive Photography
Exhibited at 2/3 House in the artist-house project, Mattauw Earth Triennial 2019, Madou, Tainan.
Ching-Huan Chang × Chia-Sheng Wang
Representation of Landscape
Work dated 2017; presented in Migratory Matters Exhibition (2017–2018), Tsung-Yeh Arts and Cultural Center, Tainan.
Ching-Huan Chang
Journey From Beijing to Rome
A solo photography journey, 10 March–6 July 2016.
Ching-Huan Chang
FURTHER EXHIBITIONS
2016 · 2017 · 2018
Wonder Foto Day, Taipei — first, second and third editions
PRESS & READING
In print & in context.
artscape / JAPAN
2022 / Press
2024 / Exhibition
2023 / Press
2023 / Press
2022 / Press
2022 / Feature
2022 / Exhibition guide
2019 / Press
2022 / Press
Matsu Biennial — from topophobia to topophilia
Read source家的形狀 / THE SHAPE OF HOME2024 / Exhibition
The Shape of Home — Stories of Arrival and Encounter
Read source青年日報 / YOUTH DAILY NEWS2023 / Press
The Collaboration Ground at Galerie Pierre
Read sourceFAM 準建手札2023 / Press
The Collaboration Ground: twelve creative practices in dialogue with the land
Read source500輯 / UNITED DAILY NEWS2022 / Press
Military sites reimagined as exhibition spaces
Read sourceINTERIOR 室內 / NO. 3422022 / Feature
Matsu Biennial — Island Brew
Read sourceVOGUE TAIWAN2022 / Exhibition guide
A guide to the Matsu Biennial
Read sourceEZ優遊網2019 / Press