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Chih-Chien Wang, Longan Structure_0724, 2020

Chih-Chien Wang

Longan Structure_0724, 2020
Impression au jet d'encre / Inkjet print
58 x 87 "
147.3 x 221 cm
Ed 5 + 2 AP
Series: In search of a solid ground
© Chih-Chien Wang
$ 9,000.00
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'Longan, a tropical fruit, which alongside lychee brackets the end and the beginning of summer in Taiwan, and their tastes condense and evoke memory of my childhood. Having longan in...
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"Longan, a tropical fruit, which alongside lychee brackets the end and the beginning of summer in Taiwan, and their tastes condense and evoke memory of my childhood. Having longan in Montreal has been a luxury attempt, and it often results in failure as it is simply too long a distance for the fruit to travel to North America and keep its freshness. During the last Lunar New Year, I couldn't resist the desire of buying longan while having complex feelings about it because I never had fresh longan during New Years in Taiwan as it was simply not the right season for it. I haven't been back for New Year for more than ten years after Shaore was born so questioning the right season of it somehow seems ridiculous. That sense of reality has long been forgotten and lost its relevance. The longan surprisingly was not as bad as I expected, but its journey of transportation and the process of preservation keep me wondering what brings a fruit to another world and creates a reality to which it doesn't belong? Is it still a real fruit, or does it become a fiction? Our perception of reality is constructed with seasonal and natural limitation, but memory ironically could call to break that boundary of reality and create a new one. I photographed and re-photographed the longan fruit, its shells and seeds, as if this action of taking a picture is ritualized enough to pay homage to the lost sense of reality and the memory of it." - Chih-Chien Wang
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"Longan, un fruit tropical, qui, avec le litchi, marque la fin et le début de l'été à Taïwan, et leurs goûts se condensent et évoquent le souvenir de mon enfance. Avoir du longan à Montréal a été une tentative de luxe, et elle se solde souvent par un échec car la distance à parcourir pour que le fruit puisse se rendre en Amérique du Nord et conserver sa fraîcheur est tout simplement trop longue. Au cours du dernier Nouvel An lunaire, je n'ai pas pu résister au désir d'acheter du longan tout en ayant des sentiments complexes à ce sujet, car je n'ai jamais eu de longan frais au cours du Nouvel An à Taïwan, car ce n'était tout simplement pas la bonne saison pour lui. Je ne suis pas revenu pour le Nouvel An plus de dix ans après la naissance de Shaore, alors se poser la question de la bonne saison me semble ridicule. Ce sens de la réalité a été oublié depuis longtemps et a perdu sa pertinence. Le longan n'a étonnamment pas été aussi mauvais que je l'espérais, mais son voyage de transport et le processus de conservation me poussent à me demander ce qui apporte un fruit à un autre monde et crée une réalité à laquelle il n'appartient pas ? Est-ce toujours un fruit réel ou devient-il une fiction ? Notre perception de la réalité est construite avec des limites saisonnières et naturelles, mais la mémoire pourrait ironiquement appeler à briser cette limite de la réalité et à en créer une nouvelle. J'ai photographié et re-photographié le fruit de Longan, ses coquilles et ses graines, comme si cette action de prendre une photo était suffisamment ritualisée pour rendre hommage au sens perdu de la réalité et à la mémoire de celle-ci".
-Chih-Chien Wang
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