by Chi-wen Gallery Location: Chi-wen Gallery
Artist(s): CHANG Chien-Chi
Date: 18 Feb - 24 Mar 2012
Magnum photographer Chang Chien-chi (張乾琦) returns to Chi-Wen Gallery with a new series of photographs titled Burmese Days (在緬甸的日子). In this exhibition he turns his lens to Myanmar, a country run by a military regime and obsessed with Buddhism, where every male “enters the monastery sometime in their life to complete his monkhood,” and “astrologers are treated like rock stars and publications touting predictions for the coming years are among best sellers on newsstands,” writes Chang in his artist’s statement.