The Centre of the Forest is a Lake Like Mirror

We eat, we take images, a mouthful, an image, one after the other. We want to bite into every moment, capture everything, savour each morsel, be saturated, be versed, discover… and also to be fed.

Originally from Taiwan, Chih-Chien Wang has lived in Montreal since 2002. This displacement, this deliberate uprooting, is at the heart of his artistic practice. It has influenced his relationship to the world and to the objects that surround him; as much as it has impacted the way he perceives himself and his method of working. Compulsively, Wang accumulates, image upon image, video footage and photographic images. From this abundance emerges an unusual yet lyrical universe, with an unsettling aesthetic that speaks of a keen desire to create a place of belonging.

For The centre of the forest is a lake like mirror, all is in migration, indeed even in mutation. The individual, as much as the everyday objects that surround him, are inclined to be in a state of transformation. By quietly changing their intended function, Wang's objects are rendered sublime in their juxtaposition with the individual, often to the artist himself, prompting an allegorical reading of the work that steps outside of the linear or cause and effect interpretation.

Text excerpt from:

Dazibao: http://www.dazibao-photo.org/en/prog_2005_2006_wang.html