Since Chou’s art practice has taken on ideas of making art through an investigation of material processes and the formation of meaning and identity, he had begun considering the relationship between his work and the history of painterly art, but inflected through questions about how the meaning of the object or image works contextually and symbolically. “ I’m not trying to imitate an oil painting, I’m trying to make one. And if I disregard the assumption that painting is layers of pigments applied to a surface, then I am practicing painting by other means.” — Chou Shih Hsiung

At Taipei Dangdai, Chou has released his first painting series on oil drums. 100 Faces of Youthpresents his memory of childhood, when he painted on oil drums in his family’s oil factory.