張家翔
Chia-Hsiang Chang
Born in 1996 in Changhua, Taiwan, the artist graduated from the MFA programme in the Department of Fine Arts at the National Changhua University of Education.
Working primarily with moving image and installation, the practice draws from scenes and observations encountered in everyday life, approaching the image as an unstable and constantly shifting state of existence. Through the deconstruction of scenes and objects within the image, elements are released from the flat surface and extended into spatial gaps and site-based interruptions, creating moments of dislocation and fragmentation within the viewing experience.
By combining temporary objects and constructed environments, the work develops transitional spaces that offer viewers a temporary departure from everyday reality, while reconsidering the relationships between image, object, and perception.
Recent recognitions include selection for the Mixed Media category of the National Art Exhibition (2023), finalist for the Jury Prize at the Contemporary Annual Exhibition (2023), and receiving support from the Shih An Art Award (2022).
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1996 年出生於台灣彰化,畢業於國立彰化師範大學美術學系碩士班。
創作主要以影像與裝置為媒介,發想自日常生活中的場景,將影像視為一種不穩定且可變動的存在狀態。透過影像對場景與物件的拆解,使其從平面中被釋放,進而滲入空間的縫隙與現場干擾之中,形塑出觀看經驗的斷裂與錯置。同時,藉由臨時性物件的組合與場景調度,建構具過渡性的環境,提供觀者一種短暫逃逸現實的感知狀態,重新思考影、像與物之間的關係。近年曾入選全國美術展綜合媒材類(2023)、當代一年展評審團獎入圍(2023),並獲世安藝術創作贊助(2022)。
《On-Site Legitimisation》
On-Site Legitimisation explores the landscapes of Changhua through a long-term observation of the increasingly compressed, hybridised, and industrialised conditions imposed upon agricultural land. Across these landscapes, illegal structures coexist closely with the land itself, often emerging as temporary, rapidly expanding survival strategies that transform life-sustaining farmland into spaces of industrial protection and containment.
Through bodily intervention within the site and the processing of mixed media materials, the work attempts to evoke the fragmented modes of perception produced through the repetitive coexistence of agricultural and industrial labour. Using video and installation, the project further proposes an imagined condition of “performing legality” — a state that appears legitimate while remaining rooted in unstable and unresolved realities.
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〈就地合法〉
透過長期關注彰化景觀,探討農地被工業化進程高度混雜、壓縮與加工後的異質狀態。地景中處處可見與土地共生的違章建築,違章建築一般以一種臨時、快速不斷擴張的生存策略,將承載生命的土地擬態為一種具備工業防護性。作品以身體介入場景、複合媒材的加工,試圖從這種帶有重複性的勞動中,喚起身體對於農業、工業共存過程中的觀看斷裂,並藉由錄像、裝置,進而提出一種假裝合法的想像。
Artist Notes
My practice begins with the re-observation of everyday scenes, approaching the image as an unstable and constantly shifting state of existence. Much like a shadow, the image becomes a medium that loosens reality and mediates perception, carrying subtle emotions of unease, attachment, and escape.
Through the deconstruction of familiar scenes and objects, I attempt to release the image from its flattened frame. By treating the image as an unstable source of light and through the staging of spatial environments, moving image is transformed into a material presence with physical weight and depth. Inserted into cracks within architectural space and moments of site-based interruption, the image produces fragmentation and displacement within the act of viewing, constructing temporary relationships of gathering and suspension. These works offer fleeting moments of escape from reality while reconsidering the relationship between shadow, image, and object, disrupting conventional modes of perception and moving between the boundaries of reality and fiction.
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我的創作核心始於對日常場景的再觀察,將影像視為一種非穩定、可變動的存在狀態,影像如同「影」一般,成為一種鬆動現實、中介感知的介面,承載著不安、依附與逃逸的幽微情感。
創作上試圖透過影像拆解日常的場景與物件,將其從扁平的框架中釋放,藉由捕捉影像作為不穩定光源、場景調度,將影像轉化為具有厚度的物質。透過影像植入空間的裂縫與現場的干擾之中,使觀看在物理空間中產生斷裂與錯置,建構出一種具臨時性的聚合關係,提供了一個逃逸現實的片刻,並重新凝視影、像、物三者的關係,打破既有的觀看路徑,穿梭於現實與虛構的邊界。
My practice seeks to respond to the question of how image and installation can loosen the forms of repression embedded within everyday life and lived reality. As geographical locations and creative contexts continue to shift, my body repeatedly enters different environments — factory labour spaces in my hometown, residency sites, and landscapes shaped by the collage-like coexistence of farmland and industrial structures. Each encounter becomes both a process of re-observation and intervention, as well as an embodied and temporary lived experience.
Within these shifting conditions, I have become aware that I consistently enter sites from a position suspended between participation and detachment. This distant mode of observation places me simultaneously as both outsider and participant within the scene. Such distance has become an important method through which I observe, understand, and create. Artistic practice therefore becomes both a medium for establishing relationships with external environments and a space through which feelings of unease can be situated and processed.
My work examines how the image constructs spaces of escape, while reflecting on the visual tension produced by temporary and fragmented landscapes within everyday environments. Through a continual negotiation between site observation, image-making, and the positioning of the viewer, I continue to explore the potential spaces of escape that may emerge between image and spatial experience.
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自我的創作實踐,試圖回應「如何透過影像與裝置創作,鬆動日常生活中的壓抑與現實」。隨著地理位置的移動與創作現場的轉換,身體不斷進入各種場景,如家鄉工廠的勞動空間、駐村現地、農地工廠拼貼風貌。每一次進入皆是一次重新觀看與介入的過程,也是一種切身的臨時生活經驗。
面對這些轉換與差異,意識到自身總是以一種介於參與與抽離之間的姿態進入場域,那是一種疏離的觀看方式,既是旁觀者,又在現場,這種距離感,成為我觀察、理解與創作的重要方式。創作於是與外在環境之間建立關係的一種媒介,也是一個可以安放不安情緒的場域。
自身的創作分析影像如何建構逃逸的空間載體,並思考日常環境中那些臨時性、破碎性景物所帶來的視覺張力,一種結合場域觀察、影像與觀看位置的調度,持續探索影像與空間之間可能生成的逃逸之地。
Artist Info
Chia-Hsiang Chang
artist and arts educator, lives and work in Changhua
Practice
Video art and mixed media Installation
Website
changchiahsiang.wixsite.com/chang-chia-hsiang
Instagram
@jo041161