Exhibition Overview
On The Road (Taiwan) x gallery 176 (Japan) Exchange Exhibition in Osaka
Exhibition Title: “THE PHOTOGRAPHER IS ON THE WAY”
Artist Name: Jen Jiun Chou and Yao Pin Liu
Venue
gallery 176
1-6-1 Hattori-motomachi, Toyonaka-shi, OSAKA, 561-0851, JAPAN
Exhibition Duration
October 4 on Friday to October 29 on Tuesday, 2024
Closed Date
Wednesday and Thursday
Open Hours
1:00 pm to 7:00 pm
*on October 5, to 5:00 pm
Admission Fee
Free
Exhibition Planning
gallery 176, On The Road
Curator
Chang Chung Yin
Exhibition Statement
The name of this joint photography exhibition “The Photographer Is On The Way” originated from a photography studio based in Kaohsiung in southern Taiwan, as well as two persistent photographers, Jen Jiun and Yao Pin. They host “On the Road Photography Art Gallery” together, providing an exhibition space for artists who are passionate about photography, organizing professional photography lectures and regularly promoting photography education. Their photography art gallery provides a pleasant atmosphere for photography aesthetics and education in southern Taiwan, as well as throughout the rest of Taiwan.
On the way of photography, it is the path of landscapes cropped from the lens, both externally and internally, where the world opens up graphically to everyone. As Roland Barthes’s quote, “A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see”. If it is as what he suggested, that photography must go through a period of darkness before it can be shown, then what would it be like for the images in the world? Would photography remain as proof that the world once existed as such? What is the external world like? Photography leads us to have greater understanding of the world, and even better recognition of a person’s thoughts and patterns. Even though Jou and Liu are different in their styles, they both share a common characteristic in the language of photography; e.g. the capacity to use images to communicate meaning.
Jou is excellent in expressing the way of “Metonymy”in her images. The graphical images flipped through the negatives to present a dark visual style, so the relationship between the images and the reality can be dissolved in time and space by the ambiguous and detached negative phrase. Her works seem to be compressed into a simple dimension on a flat surface, a seemingly clear but detached character, behind which there is a knowledge gap about post photography, an unavoidable gender issue and indelible traces of viewing. Perhaps as a kind of image representation, the cracks opened by her works, which also allow the viewer to enter into the consciousness of her works at the same time, and the unrecognizable reality becomes a visual imagination for re-association and definition.
Liu’s works are infused with symbolic punctum in a choreographed and ornamental style, while viewing his images one is also drawn by the symbolic language he puts into his works. As quotes by John Berger “A photograph has multiple meanings. It isolates, preserves, and presents a moment taken from a continuum.”He is accustomed to using photography as a narrative to tell his unique life experiences and memories. In his works, there are stories and memories of the past that are interconnected with his life experiences, and he uses photography as a symbol for exploring his personal thoughts and emotions. What’s more, in his ritualized photographic construction, the image is also involved in the identity of the subject in the cultural gender shaping. In his images, photography is not his ultimate goal. Instead he takes images as the subject of visual language manipulation, which is the language he constructs with photography. Visual language manipulation is also the most intriguing feature of Liu’s works.
Image is a language of silence. It is also a symbol of a complex human ideology, which graphically unfolds in front of the viewers. The metaphor of “The Photographer Is On The Way” is not only the spirit of “On the Road Photography Art Gallery”, but also marks the perseverance of the two photography partners while on the road, from southern Taiwan to a country rich in culture, Japan.
Chang Chung Yin, Curator
Exhibition Plan
in preparation
Location Map
gallery 176
1-6-1 Hattori-motomachi, Toyonaka-shi, OSAKA, 561-0851, JAPAN
Hankyu Takarazuka Line Hattori Tenjin Station (11 minutes from Umeda station) Get off 1 minute walk
Talk Event: Jen Jiun Jou x Yao Pin Liu
Date
October 5 on Saturday, 2024
5:30 pm to 7:00 pmAdmission Fee
Free
Profile
Jen Jiun Chou
Educational Background
Department of Visual Communication and Design, Shu-Te University
Professional Experiences
Executive Director, On the Road Image Space
Standing Supervisor, Shadow Road Photography Art Association
Bookkeeper, Chou Jen-jiun Accounting Office
Photography lecturer, Elephant Circle Program for the Underprivileged Communities, Eden Social Welfare Foundation
Photography lecturer, Renwu School of Special Education, Kaohsiung
Standing Director, Photographers’ Association of Kaohsiung
Supervisor, Wang-Jiao Photography Studies Association in Kaohsiung
Awards and Honors
2021 Japan TIFA International Photography Awards Honorable Mention in the Editing and Environment and Art and Special Effects categories
2017 International Photography Awards (IPA) in the USA—Honorable Mentions in Special: Special Effects Category; Fine Art: Landscape Category; Editorial: Environmental Category; and Event: Social Cause Category
2017 Paris Photo Prize (PX3) in France—Honorable Mention in Fine Art-Abstract Category
2016 Sony World Photography Awards Taiwan α7 Series Competition—Excellence Award in Landscape Category
2016 Moscow International Foto Awards (MIFA) in Russia—Honorable Mentions in Fine Art—Landscape Category and Fine Art—Abstract Category
2016 IPA in the USA—Honorable Mentions in Fine Art—Abstract Category, Special—Other Category, Fine Art—Landscape Category, Nature—Landscapes Category, Special-Special Effects Category, and Nature—Trees Category
2015 Nomination for the Photography Category of the National Fine Arts Exhibition
2010 Nomination for the Photography Category of the Changhua Huangsi Art Exhibition
2010 Excellence Award of the Fengyi Fine Arts Exhibition in Kaohsiung
2009 Nomination for the Photography Category of the Joint Exhibition of Kaohsiung Artists
2009 Excellence Award in the Photography Category of Pingtung Fine Arts Exhibition
Curatorial Experiences
2018 Curator, Kaohsiung International Photography Festival, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2018 Curator, Chaos, a joint exhibition by American International Photographer Union (AIPU), USA
2017 Curator, Beauty of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2016～Now Space Curator, On The Road Image Space, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2016 Curator, RealityÄi0·Exception, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, Shanxi, China
2016 Curator, RealityÄi0·Exception, AIPU International Photography Exhibition, USA
2012～Now Curator, Joint Exhibition of members of the Balance Point Image Space, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2010～2016 Space Curator, Roast Café Space of Art and Culture, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Solo Exhibitions
2022 102 Contemporary Art Space—This End. The Other Side Photo Solo Exhibition
2021 On the Road Art Space—One End of the Red Line Photo Solo Exhibition
2017 Pingtung Museum of Art—Mobile Real Photo Solo Exhibition
2018 Kaohsiung Museum of Art—Mobile Real Photo Solo Exhibition
2017 Habia Art Space—Mandala as an Existence Photo Solo Exhibition
2016 16th China Pingyao International Photo Exhibition
2015 Kaohsiung Cultural Center Five People Group Photo Exhibition
2014 Kaohsiung Cultural Center Memories and Legends Photo Solo Exhibition
2012 Pingtung Cultural Center Recall Song Photo Solo Exhibition
Yao Pin Liu
Education
Chia Nan University of Pharmacy&Science Department of Pharmacy
Kun Shan University Master of Design M.Des
Seniority
pharmacist
Special photographer of Philippine Department of Tourism
On The Road imagespace partner
Ying photographic Art Society Chairman
Winning entries
2010 Year nanying masterpiece award
2011 Da DUN fine arts exhibition in second
2012 Shin first prize in the international photo contest
2013 Kaohsiung award Photography classes Selected
2013 France PX3 Photography Prize Selected
2014 France PX3 Photography Award Bronze Medal
2014 United States IPA Photography Award named
2015 France PX3 Photography Award named
2015 United States IPA Photography Award named
2016 Russia MIFA Photography Award Bronze Medal
2017Russia MIFA Photography Award Gold Medal
2017 px3 Portraiture / Culture Professional Bronze
2018 France PX3 Press / Other_PJ Professional Silver
2019International Color Award CHILDREN OF THE WORLD –Professional _3rd Place
2019 TIPA people/portrait Professional Bronze
2019BIFA Advertising/self-promotion Gold
2020BIFA Advertising/self-promotion Bronze
Exhibition
2012 Neutralize Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital first floor solo exhibitions
2013 Shin international exhibition of photography
2014 End of the Kaohsiung Cultural Center reborn without DAO de solo
2015 Kaohsiung Cultural Center charm four to five people exhibition of Liu Yaobin hide
2016 CHINA PINGYAO INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL
2017 PINGTUNG ART MUSEUM Photography Exhibition
2018 Kaohsiung Museum Of Fine Arts Photography Exhibition