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Chen Chieh-Jen (1960-) was born in Taoyuan, Taiwan, and graduated from vocational high school. He currently lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan. In the 1980s during the period martial law period, Chen challenged the political system through performance art. After martial law was lifted in 1987, Chen went into creative hibernation, which ended in 1996 when he started to create art again. He is currently a world-renowned avant-garde artist.
In "Bade Area - Roof No. 2," a temporary worker is seen climbing up rooftops that have the appearance of piled-up graves. The worker roams casually across the rooftops of deserted buildings. Such an aimless, slack, and casual act accentuates the margins of the city, the ruins of the economy, and the remnants of the times as represented by the architecture. The artist meticulously utilized the form of video to present a dialogue with the fact of "being sealed," while the "ungoverned" borders and margins hint at the artist's sentiments and reaction towards a certain episode of history: helplessness and censure.
Large stretches of factory rooftops are stacked horizontally across the image, contrasting the tininess of the temporary worker whose skin tone appears particularly clear in the low-saturation image of the site. Chen's framing and composition retain a layer of visual poetic beauty amid the harshness of reality.
In "Bade Area - Roof No. 2," a temporary worker is seen climbing up rooftops that have the appearance of piled-up graves. The worker roams casually across the rooftops of deserted buildings. Such an aimless, slack, and casual act accentuates the margins of the city, the ruins of the economy, and the remnants of the times as represented by the architecture. The artist meticulously utilized the form of video to present a dialogue with the fact of "being sealed," while the "ungoverned" borders and margins hint at the artist's sentiments and reaction towards a certain episode of history: helplessness and censure.
Large stretches of factory rooftops are stacked horizontally across the image, contrasting the tininess of the temporary worker whose skin tone appears particularly clear in the low-saturation image of the site. Chen's framing and composition retain a layer of visual poetic beauty amid the harshness of reality.
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