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The Alp                           
The Bedroom                 
The Cable              
The Camera (16)         
The Camera (17)             
The Camera (36)
The Camera (65)
The Chat
The Cultural Center
The Dust
The Figure
The Gate            
The Jog             
The Lighting           
The Link             
The Looty           
The Map             
The Mask           
The Postcard        
The Route          
The Sallow Man
The Sculpture    
The Smart City   
The Toyota    
The Vitrine      

Bengawan Solo            
Café Togo           
Songs of SPECX         
The Currency-Sensing 01         
The Currency-Vinyl          
The Gesture I         
The Gesture II        
The Guestbook            
The Sallow Sea          


Ghost In The Sea            
Too Loud A Dust            
On The Faience Of Your Eyes       
There Are Lights That Never Go Out
I'll Be Back   
Resistance is Futile      Modern Life is Dull       

The  Camera  (17)    /    攝  像  機  （17）


2017
photograph
29.7 x 420 cm, C-Print, 2017

By reversing the direction of the camera lens, The Camera series signifies changes in the power dynamics of seeing and the hierarchy of images. The number behind the title indicates the year in which a specific historical incident occurred. In The Camera (17), a photograph created for his solo exhibition Resistance is Futile in 2017, Chihying examined the controversy at that year’s Whitney Biennial.

This edition of the Biennial included Dana Schutz's painting Open Casket, which depicted the brutalised body of Emmett Till, a Black teenager who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955. The painting sparked significant controversy. Protests ensued, with some demanding the painting's removal and destruction, asserting that it was an inappropriate and insensitive representation.

For The Camera (17), Chihying reinvestigated the widely circulated image of the artist Parker Bright's protest performance against Schutz’s painting to reconstruct the scene. By doing so, this work aims to explore the layers of mediation and representation, questioning how visual documentation interferes with human perception of historical and contemporary events.


Performance by Henone Girma
Special thanks to Hsu Shih-yu for her contribution to this production


work

The Alp        
The Bedroom           
The Cable              
The Camera (16)        
The Camera (17)        
The Camera (36)
The Camera (65)
The Chat
The Cultural Center
The Dust
The Figure
The Gate           
The Jog            
The Lighting          
The Link             
The Looty           
The Map             
The Mask           
The Postcard       
The Route         
The Sallow Man
The Sculpture   
The Smart City   
The Toyota    
The Vitrine     


collective

Bengawan Solo           
Café Togo          
Songs of SPECX          The Currency-Sensing 01   The Currency-Vinyl    The Gesture I         
The Gesture II          The Guestbook            The Sallow Sea         


exhibition

Ghost In The Sea       Too Loud A Dust           
On The Faience Of Your Eyes   There Are Lights That Never Go Out         I'll Be Back           Resistance is Futile    
Modern Life is Dull