Crisis of Now – CONTEMPORARY ASIAN PHOTOGRAPHY – Part III
Is a series of unpublished photography exhibitions that analyses the culture and artistic practice of contemporary art from the perspective of Asian creators. Crisis of Now. Part III premieres in Barcelona and brings together the work of Wei-Li Yeh, Liu Ho-Jang and Ting-Ting Chen. Part I travelled in 2018 to different cities in Germany, where projects by Yao Jui-Chung, Yang Che-Yi and Yunyi Liu were on view; and Part II was shown in 2019 in the United States, with photographs by Hou Lulu Shur-Tzy, Ting Chaong-Wen and I-Hsuen Chen. The Crisis of Now series is curated by Chun-Chi Wang, a Taiwanese curator based in Berlin. His work focuses on the relationship between humans and technology, and reveals the excess of mechanisation and virtualisation of today’s world, where speed and control play a crucial role.
Crisis of Now. Part III brings together 45 works in Barcelona, some in large format, that narrate specific experiences and life stories, while allowing the building of relationships between disparate historical contexts from different perspectives. Some of the series show different geographic locations synchronously, while others focus on the same location at different times. Personal experiences and collective consciousness are linked to multiple historical trajectories where political and social vicissitudes play an important role. The exhibition brings together the work of Wei-Li Yeh, Liu Ho-Jang and Ting-Ting Chen.
The Artists
Wei-Li Yeh was born in Taipei (Taiwan) in 1971 and emigrated to the United States at the age of 11 with his family. During his adolescence in Tampa (Florida), he became fascinated by heavy metal music and rock’n’roll. He studied photography at the University of South Florida (1994) and at the Rhode Island School of Design (1997). Following a 1996 visit to Taiwan (his first since emigrating to the USA), he was drawn to themes of displacement, assimilation, cultural identity and racial politics. Yeh then moved to New York, showing his work at Columbia University, the Bronx Museum of Art and the International Center of Photography. In 2002 he decided to return to Taiwan, becoming a very active artist and curator. His work is exhibited and collected around the world, and his photographic and textual projects explore the dynamics of the human being as an individual in relation to collective practices. He currently lives and works in Yangmei (Taiwan).
Ting-Ting Chen was born in 1985 in Taipei. She graduated in Advertising and Public Relations from Fu-Jen University and moved to London, where she studied photography at the University of Westminster (2009) and graduated in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths College (2014). Her work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the Grand Siècle Gallery (Taiwan), Identity Art Gallery (Hong Kong), Gallery Nomart (Osaka, Japan), Addaya Palma and the Luis Adelantado Gallery in Spain. She has also participated in group exhibitions at ARCO Madrid, the Bi.City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture in Shenzhen (People’s Republic of China), the III Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, KuanDu Museum (Taipei), National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, National Art Museum of China (Beijing), Art 14 (London) and Art Stage Singapore, among others. In 2012 she was selected among the 40 most relevant artists in Asia by Hong Kong’s Perspective Magazine.
Liu Ho-Jang was born in 1972 in Taipei (Taiwan). He graduated in 2002 from the Creative Institute of Queen’s College at the City University of New York. His work reflects on photographic identity in the context of contemporary society. In 2011, his work was published in Aster Magazine. His exhibitions include Sculpture Games, Fields, at the Taipei University of Arts (2019); Super Daily, at the Taipei Biennial (2018); Wuzhong Accounting Painting-Reality Virtual, at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum (2017); Key Meditation, at the Asian Biennale (2017); Public Spirit, at the Ujazdowski Castle – Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw (2016); City Charm, at the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts in Taiwan (2015); and New York, at the Queens International Biennale, organised by the Queens Museum in New York (2013). The photographer lives and works in Taipei and Tainan, and is a full-time professor at the Institute of Plastic Arts at Tainan University of Fine Arts.
ABOUT HOMESESSION
Created in 2007 by Olivier Collet and Jérôme Lefeure, Homesession is an exhibition, creation and residency space for contemporary artists that encourages creation in the field of visual arts. Its activity focuses on supporting and offering visibility to artists, as well as promoting interdisciplinary experimentation. Homesession is an independent space whose international network amplifies the impact of its actions beyond the local sphere.
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