Pork Belly Series - Flesh Weapons - Junk

2006

Oil on canvas

162.5 x 129.5 cm

Titled on the reverse Pork Belly Series - Flesh Weapons - Junk in Chinese, Chang-Ling in Chinese and dated 2006

Estimate
220,000 - 280,000
52,000 - 66,000
6,700 - 8,600
Sold Price
480,000
115,663
14,925

Ravenel Autumn Auction 2009 Taipei

137

Chang-Ling (Taiwanese, b. 1975)

Pork Belly Series - Flesh Weapons - Junk


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Catalogue Note:

The "Pork Belly" Series extends from flesh weapons to the war of the flesh. The artist reaches back to his childhood memories and explores his reaction to setbacks. By presenting the sweet and pure desire for war games in childhood, the artist examines and questions the cultural conflicts confronted by overseas students in adulthood. Set against a multi-hierarchical background of different shades, these flesh weapons of toy guns, aircrafts, tanks, and submarines create an abnormally blood-red world piled up with flesh and bodies. The soft flesh that symbolizes desire and lust becomes bloody man-slaughtering tools in war; and Western toys in the memory are no longer toys but become homicidal weapons. This construction of mutilated flesh suggests the artist's consciousness of and resistance against Western cultural colonialism and depicts, from his own origin of consciousness, the complexity of cultural recognition by the majority of Taiwanese in this era. As if on a pitch-black battlefield, the artist fights a desperate war against invisible alien cultures and pursues the cultural subject. However, this helpless and adventurous exploration in the shade makes one feel the trickle of fear.


(Quoted from The World in the Flesh, by Hu Chao-sheng)


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