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About Chen Chieh-Jen

Chen Chieh-Jen digitally altered black and white photographs of torture scenes that act as commentary on colonization and the gaze of the oppressor. In his recent film work he links physical torture scenes of the body in pain with that of economic strangulation of a nation in the age of globalization. Chen (born in 1960, lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan) creates primarily in the forms of digital imaging and video installation. His artwork reexamines the narrative form and meaning of images through a dialectic of image/power, photographer/subject, memory/history, reality/artifice and blending/variation, while exploring new possibilities for images and for narrative. In this manner, Chen delves deeply into people and communities on the margins of contemporary life, in an attempt to convey their living experiences and inner spiritual states.