ILLUSTRATED:
Ashen face, Aki Gallery, Taipei, 2014, color illustrated,pp. 44、91

“Ashen Face” can be considered the most praised series in the career of the Taiwanese contemporary artist Lo Chan-peng. Alternatively to the vividness of his previous “Strawberry Generation” period, Lo conjured images of “Ashen Face” girls with the excelled hyper-realism style, and the masking techniques inheriting classical masterpieces. Their pale, sick expressions were conveyed with mixed emotions of anger, jealousy, ambition and adoration altogether, symbolizing the “extreme anxiety and insecurity” that pervaded Taiwanese society.