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The video shows two Tai labors in Hualien marble factory pushed a trolley used in the past particularly for mine district, today , this old style trolley has been replaced by the new style crane, Artist invites two labors walking back and forth through the old trolley that he gilded by covering gold leaves as a divinized presentation. This work therefore has blended and mixed the reality and memory in life like the layers of wrinkles and folds in the stratum, the viewer could create an archaeological journey from the imaginations in many aspects.

Chen-Hung Chiu creative works revolve around collecting those inadvertently hidden objects / people and legends surrounding him, as well as rewriting the ambiguous ties between these "anonymous identities" and the locality, in a sense analogous to the connections between body and building, city and cells, monuments and intimacy. Comparable to the process of remodeling monuments, he strips away the logic designed and rationalized by social structures in attempt to rename those that offer significance and meaning to each material. Yet, unlike the citations made through reminiscing in the past, his works are instead sincere observations which explore personal experience and logic. Important exhibitions Chiu participated in include the Liverpool Biennial: City States(2012), ThaiTai:A Measure of Understanding, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre(2012), Une terrible poetique, La Biennale de Lyon, Galerie Olivier Hong(2011), Arte da Taiwan, Museo di Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genova(2011), Taiwan Calling-The Phantom of Liberty, Mucsarnot Museum, Budapest(2010), etc. in 2012, he was also chosen as an artist in residence at Cite internationale des arts Paris for the 12th Visual Arts Talent Exchange Program conducted by the Taiwan Ministry of Culture.