Window Exhibition – Traces of Wind
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03.12.2022
Chang Chih-Chung & Limestone Books
We invited the artist and current resident at Jan van Eyck Academie, Chang Chih-Chung, for our first window exhibition!
Inspired by the bookstore’s core values, the characteristics of paper, and the vibrant history of Maastricht, the artist uses origami as an aesthetic form to explore the possibilities of tracing paper. Not only representing the medium of print or the crystallised textures of this city’s geographical history, but the paper also shows the damp wrinkles created by the humidity of trade winds and monsoons that brought the eastern and the western worlds together through invisible routes at sea.
About the artist: Chih Chung Chang (b. 1986, Kaohsiung, TW) is an artist, cultural researcher, and art educator with a background and training in art conservation. He regards the ocean with a worldview shaped by the terrestrial civilization of the Anthropocene and regards water as a medium that penetrates everything, from the inner to the outer worlds. This medium embodies the unstable state of transition, flow, and anti-subjectivity corresponding to his homeland of Taiwan’s subtropical monsoon climate. His art deals with rapidly changing environments like ships, islands, and ports. He looks to unveil universal experiences and grey areas found amid the tensions between humans, civilisation, and nature, which are constantly reforming each other. His artworks are based upon a core narrative text or story and integrate with keen craftsmanship in multiple forms and media.