• Duration：2017.11.11. Sat. – 2017.12.03. Sun.
• Opening：2017.11.11. Sat. 3:00pm
• Press Preview：2017.11.10 Fri. 12:00pm
• Artist：YEN Ching-Chieh

For the first time, artist Yen Ching-Chieh is holding his solo exhibition, Drifting in the Future, at the Liang Gallery. A continuation of his recent Drifting Series, this exhibition showcases his works over the last few years. Using illusionary and surreal imagery, he depicts a distant future, while reflecting on the development of human civilization and changes of the environment.

In the exhibition Drifting in the Future, an expansive world of the future is constructed. In the future, Earth has already become unsuitable for human life. Humankind has already left the earth to find its new home, continuously drifting throughout and exploring the universe. To survive, the creatures remaining on Earth have evolved physical features and appearances to adapt to all kinds of dangerous environments. Even their intelligence has advanced to levels that allow them to make use of human technology left behind. As a result, they wear and use human equipment in their competition for survival with other creatures.

Taking on a god-like role, the artist observes every individual detail of this world system. With whimsical pictures filled with symbolic imagery, the artist creates a unique system of symbols that combines animal imagery with a sense of technology, while invoking the relationship between human technological development and environmental change. In this way, he provides his own interpretation of the world of the future.

Artist Biography

Yen Ching-Chieh was born in 1983 in Taipei. He obtained his BFA from the Department of Fine Arts at the National Taiwan University of Arts in 2006, and MFA in Western Painting from National Taiwan Normal University in 2010. The artist’s exquisite painting technique allows him to display succinct visual effects that are very realistic. In recent years, he has been focused on depicting the delicate balance between nature and technology in order to illustrate reality and present the future world. Combining images of technology and animals, Yen builds a special symbolic system, and an interpretation of the real world as seen by the artist. Yen was awarded according to the Young Artists Study Abroad Plan in 2008. His work Journey of Life was collected by the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in 2010.