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Chih-Chien Wang. A Gift of Images — Sylvain Campeau

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Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Chih-Chien Wang

[Summer 2021] Par Sylvain Campeau [Excerpt] Characteristic of Chih-Chien Wang’s art practice is his intertwined use of photography and videography, so it might seem incongruous to approach his work from the angle of the still life. Nevertheless, allusions to this genre constantly arise in his work, although analysts and critics have never thought to make […]

ENTR’ACTE . A Collective Portrait of the Royal Victoria Hospital – James D. Campbell

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Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Angela Grauerholz, Chih-Chien Wang, Gabor Szilasi, Luc Courchesne, Marie-Jeanne Musiol, Michel Campeau, Raymonde April, Roberto Pellegrinuzzi, Serge Clément, Yan Giguère, Yann Pocreau

Octobre 19, 2021 [originally published in CV109 in Summer 2018 ] — This round-robin exhibition featured powerful and evocative images of the original site of the recently abandoned Royal Victoria Hospital. Eleven Montreal artists were invited by the RBC Art and Heritage Centre of the McGill University Health Centre to tour the original site…

Chih-Chien Wang – Sylvain Campeau

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Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Chih-Chien Wang

April 11, 2021 [originally published in French only in CV108 in Winter 2018] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Chih-Chien Wang, The Act of Forgetting – Claire Moeder

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Authors: Claire Moeder | Artists: Chih-Chien Wang

June 27, 2019 [originally published in CV101 in Fall 2015] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Chih-Chien Wang, Aussi loin que nous soyons, aussi près que je peux – Sonia Pelletier

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Authors: Sonia Pelletier | Artists: Chih-Chien Wang

April 23, 2018 [originally published in French in CV95 in Fall 2013] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Chih-Chien Wang, Short Sentences – James D. Campbell

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Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Chih-Chien Wang

February 9, 2017 [originally published in CV89 in Fall 2011] — In Short Sentences, an aptly titled show of recent photographic and video work, Chih-Chien Wang offers a moving photographic journey that is also a poetic reverie on words and things, life and death. The show is fittingly bracketed by an image of the artist’s son asleep, and another of his son being breastfed by his partner, Yushan. In the former, Shaore Lies on Futon, a photograph of his son lying prone on a futon in deep sleep, Wang evokes the fragility of young life.

Péripéties – James D. Campbell

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Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Bettina Hoffmann, Carlos & Jason Sanchez, Chih-Chien Wang, Eve K. Tremblay, Milutin Gubash

June 23, 2016 [originally published in Fall 2010] — This exhibition highlights narrative disruption and its consequences in five mature bodies of photographic and video work, and demonstrates how the uncanny seeps in and out of those ruptures in an auratic and seismic way, even as meaning and dénouement are delayed. Works by Bettina Hoffman, Carlos and Jason Sanchez, Milutin Gubash, Eve K. Tremblay, and Chih-Chien Wang…

Chih-Chien Wang, The Centre of the Forest Is a Lake Like Mirror – Alice Ming Wai Jim, Domestic Trajectories

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Authors: Alice Ming Wai Jim | Artists: Chih-Chien Wang

[Spring 2006] The piece, initially presented at Dazibao, covered the entire walls of the gallery with dozens of images and two video works. Each photography is like a suspended moment in time, extracted from a continuous flux in which perception, memory and culture intermingle to create a personal trajectory and identity. Newspaper Wrap, on the […]