Feminine Resilience : Female Abstract Artists with Overseas Enculturation—Wei Jane CHIR, Jo HSIEH, Suling WANG

GALLERIES   Booth : B10
 SALON :  Ching-Hui CHOU

 Venue : Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, Hall 1 (4th Floor)

Chini Gallery will present three remarkable oversea Taiwanese female abstract artists represented by the gallery at the 2020 Taipei Dangdai.
Currently living in New York, Wei Jane Chir graduated from the Berlin University of the Arts, and was awarded a grant from Germany’s Department of Culture.
Jo Hsieh also graduated from the Royal College of Art, and later received her PhD in Fine Art from the Falmouth College of Art. During her time in the UK, Hsieh had a long-term partnership with Michael Goedhuis Gallery.
Suling Wang graduated from the Royal College of Art and has a long history of collaboration with the established British art gallery, Victoria Miro Gallery.
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The three artists possess extensive oversea living experiences, and have held exhibitions in art institutions in Taiwan and abroad, where their works were included in various art collections. Through their creative work, they have presented the world abundant creations that unify and transform the Eastern and Western culture, incorporated with their individual interpretation and sensibility that have given rise to highly distinctive abstract vocabularies. As “female abstract art” becomes more and more prominent in the field of contemporary art, their works, rational or lyrical, have made them genuinely representative among their peers in the Chinese-speaking community. In the international art scene, they have also demonstrated the abstract spirituality as well as unlimited creativity through their free, rich visual expression and fluid, varying representation.
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SALON : CHOU Ching-Hui
A well-known Taiwanese photographer, Chou Ching-Hui was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1965. Originally a photojournalist, Chou became a professional photographer to satisfy his longing for artistic creation. He always spends a long time staying at the chosen locations for photography, and has won numerous prizes and awards for his large-scale projects. His work has been invited to be shown in Berlin, Frankfurt, Florence, Sydney, Hague, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, and has been collected by museums and private institutions in Taiwan and abroad. In addition, the limited photography albums derived from his projects have won prestigious international and Taiwanese awards, including the iF Design Award, Red Dot Design Award, and Golden Butterfly Award, showing how his high-quality works produced with strict standards and requirements are positively recognized and received in the world.
Throughout his career as a photographer that has lasted almost three decades, Chou’s subject matter has shifted from captivating journalistic events to creatively theatrical scenes, and his style has changed from documentary photography to fabricated photography. In his latest project, Animal Farm, Chou changed the role of photographer as a “hunter” and turned himself into a “director,” and amazed his audience with a bizarre and unsettling sense of existence in his characteristic way.