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Artes Mundi 4: Chen Chieh-jen

Taiwan-based Chen Chieh-jen works with photography, film, installation and performance to explore issues connected to globalisation, in particular labour, consumerism and migration.

Last updated: 08 October 2009

Detail from a photograph of Chen Chieh-jen's film Bade Area. Image courtesy of Chen Chieh-jen

Detail from a photograph of Chen Chieh-jen's film Bade Area. Image courtesy of Chen Chieh-jen.

Chen Chieh-jen makes work as an act of resistance: "as an act of connection, linking together the history of people who have been excluded from the dominant discourse, the real-life situations of areas that are being ignored, and 'others' who are being isolated. In this way, [he resists] the state of amnesia in consumer society."

Based in Taiwan, he is also interested in his country's particular position, seen by many as an independent country but by China as one of its states.

The precision and elegance of his work belies the corruption and unfair nature of life.


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