Lambda prints on photo paper、mounting on plexiglass (acrylic、aluminium frame)、UV prints on metel plate|Size variety ,15 pieces|2010-2013
Human-being ascertains another creature thought our own blind spot. Which some times appears technical and reasonable, but eventually the empathy that can't prevent makes a grotesque that legitimate to civilization, yet irrational to the real nature, like a taxidermy. In my hometown Tainan, there once an old taxidermy room, some of the taxidermy inside can trace back to Japanese-Occupied Period. Today, they were placed along with polystyrene mountain and cheap plastic decorations, become dilapidated, disfigured and ridiculous due to lacking proper maintenance. I took the portrait of them with straight flashlight make it rough and unnatural, almost like disturbing the animals in wild. The camera kills these lively taxidermies second times. The pictures are trophies.
Taxidermy that originates from 18th is one of the most ancient three-dimensional methods. Today's 3D modeling procedure that goes thought "model-building to skin-mapping" has a strange conceptual and operational succeed from taxidermy's "foams-making to pelts-mounting.” In
Each kind of museum has its specific context. In here, I tried to cross an art museum and a nature museum. In