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Using photography and film, Chen creates a space in which standard narratives are deconstructed and the subjectivity of the viewed can be reestablished.
Chen’s work focuses on the idea of the body as a social construct subject to power relations, a theme which runs from his early performance as resistance against the authoritarian regime in Taiwan, through digitally manipulated photographs of torture and war, to recent films about the vacuum left behind for workers and the built environment when capital moves elsewhere.
Using photography and film, Chen creates a space in which standard narratives are deconstructed and the subjectivity of the viewed can be reestablished.
In the 1990s, Chen adapted a series of historic photographs of torture and war by digitally replacing the victims, the torturers and the onlookers in the scenes with images of himself. Rather than using them to comment on specific historical events, the artist calls these images ‘echoes’ that addres