Relax, I'm Just Awake.
En-Tzu CHANG's Solo Exhibition 2009
There seems a secret between the lovely princess and the animal characters. Through En-Tzu CHANG's sewing works which de-construct the re-define the fairy tales, the symbolic sweetness of the tale is torn down in a self-abusive manner. It unveils another possibility for little girls\' myth, lovely and scary, to be able to read the tales in different angles.---- Hai-Ming Huang, Art Critics
The title, "Relax, I\'m Just Awake", provides another psychological imagination when viewing this solo exhibition. It is also my state of emotion when creating this work series. The state of "Awake" is a clear dividend between awareness and sleep, even highlighting the shortness of the somber time. It means that there are too much in works and life which are beyond our comprehension or are suppressed into our lost-consciousness. When we take easy and face what we have experienced, then communicate with each other as if we lost our consciousness, we can surely invoke our un-conscious part up to the consciousness stage and have a conversation with it.
These works, centering on the princess' image in the fairy tale classics, express with the sign of lust and unusual gestures. The works try to unmask the personalities which are widely accepted in the society. In the visual of the work, the images of different worlds start to interlace. The crossed naked bodies of men and women, the curly head with a long nose, the princess, the deer, the bird, the eye contact and various hand gestures give the whole visual an atmosphere, as if we cannot tell in space and time.
En-Tzu CHANG
Born in 1983 in Kaohsiung, CHANG has a Master\'s Degree in Fine Arts at National Kaohsiung Normal University. In 2009, she was invited to WaterMill Village as an artist-in-residence in Long Island, New York. Her recent exhibition includes Duel Regard – The Views from Taiwanese Women's Arts (National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, 2009) and Solo Exhibition "What Do You See at Very Moment!" (Taiwan New Arts Union in Tainan, 2007). She received several honors such as "Kaohsiung Awards and the 25th Kaohsiung Fine Arts Exhibition" (2008), "Arts in Taipei: Made in Taiwan" New Artists Showcase (2008), and Finalist of "Taoyuan Creation Award"(2007). In 2007, her works were acquired by National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts as a part of the Young Artists Collection.
