At the
Alliance Française de Bangalore, Chien-Chi Chang will present some of his major
works in the photo essay and multimedia formats.
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PHOTOGRAPHER CHIEN-CHI CHANG is dedicated to investigating the ties that bind
one person to another, drawing on his own deeply divided immigrant experience.
In his work,
Chien-Chi Chang makes manifest the abstract concepts of alienation and
connection. “The Chain,” a collection of portraits made in a mental asylum in
Taiwan, caused a sensation when it was shown at La Biennale di Venezia (2001)
and the Bienal de Sao Paulo (2002). The life-sized photographs of pairs of
patients literally chained together resonate with Chang’s jaundiced look at the
less visible bonds of marriage. He has treated marital ties in two books—I do I
do I do (2001), a collection of images depicting alienated grooms and brides in
Taiwan, and in Double Happiness (2005), a brutal depiction of the business of
selling brides in Vietnam. The ties of family and of culture are also the
themes of an ambitious project begun in 1992. For 20 years, Chang has
photographed the bifurcated lives of Chinese immigrants in New York’s
Chinatown, along with those of their wives and families back home in Fujian.
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