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Something Unforgettable
2004-2007
BY
CHIU Kuo-Chun
Something Unforgettable
2004-2007
Something Unforgettable
2004-2007
Something Unforgettable
2004-2007
Something Unforgettable
2004-2007
Something Unforgettable
2004-2007
Something Unforgettable
2004-2007
Something Unforgettable
2004-2007
Something Unforgettable
2004-2007
Something Unforgettable
2004-2007
Something Unforgettable
2004-2007
Something Unforgettable
2004-2007
Something Unforgettable
2004-2007
Something Unforgettable
2004-2007
Something Unforgettable
2004-2007
Something Unforgettable
2004-2007
Something Unforgettable
2004-2007
Something Unforgettable
2004-2007
Something Unforgettable
2004-2007
Something Unforgettable
2004-2007
Something Unforgettable
2004-2007
Something Unforgettable
2004-2007
Something Unforgettable
2004-2007
Something Unforgettable
2004-2007
Something Unforgettable
2004-2007
Something Unforgettable
2004-2007
Something Unforgettable
2004-2007
Something Unforgettable
2004-2007
Something Unforgettable
2004-2007
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A simulation so alive, it seems to be watching and judging us and sees us as human beings weak and frail. And when we become involved with such a simulation, mentally or physical we become part of it. And by extension we lose your selves within it. When you’re swimming in the currents of projection, the line blurs between the objects you desire, and your needs a human being. We become confused in the stream of time.

The encompassing seduction, driven by simulation, is sometimes so overwhelming that after it passes we need to recapture the time spent within it. Or, we choose to extend our time within the simulation and thereby create a new direction a different channel that flows into life. Any image or objects, that create such an intense bond during its experience is a means of repacking and upstaging our real life.

Real events can be subservient and replace by functional reality based on illusions. Elusive projections can sometimes seduce the known vision of our self. Partially, in this current age of technology base on consumerism.

Where for the first time in history masses of people, possess the tools to temporarily suspend most unwanted realities. And many try too.

Craving a better existence or a life that is more politically, commercially or personally empowering. This desire for change is fed and driven by unceasingly images extolling a different life. Thus we can suppose that all, if not most objects and even human nature is susceptible to projected imprinting and can be conditioned to become something else.

Taiwan has not escaped the illusionary cycles of stimulation and stimuli called news. In Taiwan, people have become the latest objects. Their personal imagery is splash, twisted and transformed though the tabloids of T.V, print, video and radio. Especially if the objects are pleasing to the eye or well known, whether a local beauty found in college. The glossy Saloon style portrait of famous female writers or a new cosmetic line pushed by pretty female politicians found in the newspaper.

But thanks of the development of feminist Ideology a myriad of pictorial possibility exists that can express the realism and goals of the suffrage movement. Such Ideas as self-expression, respect of gender and equality of the sexes but many of these visual choices have been edited, bleach and pushed into a shallow frame of reference. A reference that is under the constant glare of chauvinism and its preconceived ideas of beauty. And the banners of individualism and freedom against societal restraints once held by the suffragist have been co-opted and sanitizes for commercial profits and glamour.

Never mind the suggestive full body portraits of this month superstar, which are sold for personal use and enjoyment and can be found in any Taiwanese newsstand. And rounding out this litany of culture sexploitation is the contemporary trend of self-produce erotic videos marketed for mass consumption vie the Internet.

For this project we chose photographs and print to document the journey of a silicon love slave called Sadoe Mako from Japan .She is a fully functional woman, a real life delicate doll. Intuitively “Her” nature is sensually, and directed outwards to represent the standards of feminine beauty as propagate by some man and woman. She is giving her task involving love situations. A ghost in the constructed spaces of mans desire. Most indoor scenes where shot inside Taiwan love hotels, which are heavily influenced by Japanese culture and design and serve as the “Drive Through” windows of quick short affairs.

We consciously tried to humanize her nature by documenting the situations she found her self-in. She’s our attempt is to blur the lines between organic desires and material interaction. Visual she serves as a metaphor that mimics the powerlessness of pale-isolated human experience. And now, with the right media exposure this lowly silicon doll may possible become famous over night.

In addition to simulate the Ideas and approach of commercial photograph. Sadoe Mako was also given a role that involves love situations,. She is a idea projected by male society, like a ghost in the space constructed with desire. Most indoor scene I that where Shot { as in take a picture} inside Love Motels fin Taiwan, which are designed and influenced by Japan culture, They are a "Drive Through" service , that protect identities and supports the needs for quick love affair.

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3 artworks / 39 exhibition
Photographic Art
Chiu, Kuo-Chun concentrates on representing another side of Taiwan environment and culture with multi-mediums or photo-image. He tries to challenge the values of the contemporary sociality. Under his different concept, Kuo-Chun usually crossed the ...
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KEYWORDS
CHIU Kuo-Chun, 2011-2014, Photographic Art
CHIU Kuo-Chun, 1999-2000, Photographic Art