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Jun-yuan Hong

Where do you come from-1981

Vidéo | 4k | couleur | 16:44 | Taiwan | 2019

The film consists of the photographic narratives of individuals’ polaroid pictures taken at the time of their birth, which is used as the intertwining signifiers. A few of the selected actors came from broken families and had similar life experiences as the concept expressed in this work. In other words, the subjects in the images are not only a semiotic interpretation of role-playing? but also a reiteration of life experiences that overlap with these actors. That is, the creative approach adopted constantly seeks subjects close to its own life trajectory as a way to realize internal, psychological imageries and spiritual restoration.

Jun-Yuan Hong was born in 1981 in Taiwan and is currently a candidate in the Doctoral Program in Art Creation and Theory of Tainan University of the Arts. Video has strong inner emotional problems. The main reason comes from his incomplete original family. Therefore, in the video, he likes to construct these tangled feelings through close-up, and look for people with similar family situations, let them be his elements of the image that respond to and express their emotional state of facing family problems through the encounters of these different living individuals.