by Chi-wen Gallery Location: Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center (Booth 1D19)
Artist(s): GROUP SHOW
Date: 15 May - 18 May 2014
For the first time ever, Chi-Wen Gallery will present the complete series “China Town” by acclaimed Taiwanese artist Chang Chien-Chi. This ambitious project has been in the making since 1998 and was only completed this year. Using photography and video as his artistic medium, Chang Chien-Chi (b.1961) explores alienation and connection between people in contemporary society by developing long-term, interactive relationships with his subjects. Chang first became interested in themes related to the dispersion of individuals and families from their homeland in 1992, and in the years since, followed the lives of illegal immigrants in New York City's Chinatown who left China as a matter of survival. China Town was exhibited at the National Museum of Singapore in 2008, at the Taiwan Pavilion of the Venice Biennale in 2009, at Museum der Kulturen in Basel in 2011, and at the International Center of Photography in New York in 2012. This year from May 24th it will be exhibited at the National Arts School Gallery in Sydney in association with Sherman Contemporary Arts Foundation.
