by 1839 Contemporary Gallery Location: 1839 Contemporary Gallery
Artist(s): CHEN Chin-pao
Date: 22 Dec 2012 - 3 Feb 2013
"Circumgyration" is a photographic project dedicated to explore the boundaries and possibilies among reality, truth and memory. Photography seems always abouth now and aftertime. However, I am obsessed with the people and things exisiting before the invention of photography and not being able to be photographed for whatever reasons. They have always made me sorrow. It is the reason I try to take fragments of memories from myself and others, and intend to represent scenes from memories by using 8 by 10 large format camera, combing natural and artificial lightings. What I really want to do is to make something too late to be recored to be reseen. Therefore, theses images may be treated as "pseudo-memory".