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CHAN CHIAO CHUN AT UNIQUE DESIGN X SHANGHAI 2020
CHAN CHIAO CHUN AT
UNIQUE DESIGN X SHANGHAI
UNIQUE DESIGN
SHANGHAI
2020
Unique Design X Shanghai is the first platform entirely devoted to collectible design in China. Unique Design X Shanghai echoes the growing interest in China and around the world for limited edition hybrid works, which play with art, architecture and design as driving forces for innovation. After a successful launch at TANK Shanghai during the art week in November 2019, Unique Design X Shanghai is launching a 2nd edition show in Paris in partnership with Asia Now, the leading art fair focusing on the Asian creative scene in France.
For its pop-up show in Paris, “The World is Ours”, Unique Design x Shanghai selected twelve artists and designers, together with their representative galleries, to lead us into a new era, and reclaim a revitalized creative practice through which experimental materials and processes offer us a new and unexpected vision of our shared future. Humanity and resilience are the key concepts that guide the creations of these artists and designers. The result is a new proposal on how to experience and inhabit contemporary spaces. “The World is Ours” Curated by Raffaella Florio, Morgan Morris and Leo Orta
Chan Chiao Chun (1984, Taipei) is a visual artist and designer. His intuitive practice is based on the struggles between himself and his surrounding objects. Born in Taiwan, the artist moved to Europe to study and graduate with an MA from the Design Academy of Eindhoven. Over these years, he has developed a practice that allows him to explore interactions between human activity and its environments. The transformation from form to function in the contemporary design context and the unlimited self-interpretations of his visual diary play an active role in his design process. He produces a self-portrait drawing every day. He avails of color pigmentations, photographs, and raw materials are applied in his daily imageries. These self-portraits act as an autobiography that weaves a stream of incremental changes together. Chiao chooses to be an everyday creator, dealing with a state of uncertainty rather than perceptions and consciousness. He builds up a framework that thrives itself, and the attributes of its prosperity are hardly definable.
Chiao doesn't conform to conventional design discourse. His work displays a new language that can influence human behaviours and forms in different spaces. His apparent interest in hylomorphism is visible in his delicate approach to matter and form. He prefers to relate his mind to surrealistic scenarios constantly. Through this, he is compounding the richness of individuality.