Chuan-Lun Wu

Chuan-Lun Wu

Chuan-Lun Wu born in Tainan, Taiwan. The ever-changing dynamics, compromises and contradictions informing the relations between nature and civilization, ecology and politics as well as materials and the digital realm, have formed the backdrop for Wu’s artistic practice. He employs a diverse media and technics, including computer-generated imagery, photography, drawing, 3D printing, found objects, and porcelain, to create conceptual and research-based installations. His recent work often uses the process of collecting/gathering as a point of departure to explore the identity and meaning of the collected/gathered objects, from which he gradually unravels the underlying, entangled historical and social context.

Artworks

An Eggy Video Meeting

19.7×30.3 cm

2022、2024

Pencil, color pencil, marker pen, gel pen, acrylic ink, paper

Uterus Is a Kiln, Egg Is Fired (tentative)

19.7×30.3 cm

2022

Tempera, video, pottery collection, resin

A series of paper sketches titled An Eggy Video Meeting, inspired by the video meetings that have become the post-pandemic norm, appropriates video as the most common communication interface during the pandemic era. From a nonhuman perspective, can observing nature not also be a form of social awkwardness for nonhuman entities? Uterus Is a Kiln, Egg Is Fired (tentative) starts from a ceramic collection of a hoopoe produced in East Germany, using egg tempera and animation as mediums to present contrasts between the internal and external, egg and ceramic, as well as digital and painting.