Chih-Chien Wang: Short Sentences
Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain is pleased to present Short Sentences, recent photographic and video work by Chih-Chien Wang - his first solo exhibition at the gallery - from March 26 to May 7, 2011. In this new series Wang offers an introspective view of domestic life captured through a dialogue of glimpses and gestures.
Short Sentences
"They are almost weightless, I thought, then I started to reassure myself: they are weightless, and this is normal.
I use photography to document everyday life and to record gestures and found objects. Sometimes a subject overlaps with others, and they become elements of a bigger subject. The accumulation of moments and gestures gradually forms scenes of life and suggests different ways to read life: life can be a performance, and life can be a found object.
Short Sentences creates a loose structure to review the documentation of everyday life. Its topics include motherhood, birth, relationships, travel, walking, new life, aging, repetition, a shifted position, photography, chance, illusion, surface and so forth, and its implications are vague. By structuring different topics as a whole, the work points to a small world and demands a physical space where interwoven experiences can be walked through and examined.
It is a small world made of short sentences. They murmur, and they unsettle. The sentences come quickly and leave quickly. They are almost weightless, and that is normal. "
- CCW
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Born in Taiwan, Chih-Chien Wang lives and works in Montreal. He studied cinema and theatre at the Chinese University in Taipei before moving to Canada, and holds an MFA in photography from Concordia University. His work is in the collections of the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, the Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland and the National Gallery of Canada which is currently showing three works as part of the exhibition "It Is What It Is: Recent Acquisitions of New Canadian Art" until April 10, 2011
