Teng Yuan, CHANG
Winner of the Taipei Arts Awards and Kaohsiung Award, the highest honors in Taiwan, contemporary artist Teng Yuan, CHANG specializes in rewriting the stories within the texts of his works. In his fictional character “Parrot Man,” the artist transforms his own identity. The parrot is a paradox that knows how to imitate the human voice but does not know the meaning of its sound. Teng Yuan, CHANG’s work presents a mixture of truth and fiction. He also uses a compilation of observations from daily life to reconstruct the text and graphics in a third-party persona, dissecting the shaping concept of collective social consciousness. His works have been presented in solo exhibitions or joint exhibitions in London, Cologne, New York, Tokyo, Osaka, Seoul and Taipei.