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Shouen Chiang taiwan
title
The face of another
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entry description
Human is a strange animals, we all use different faces to treat different people like strangers, friends, and elders, and we all use different expressions and states to face them. Even if our emotions are disturbed by other things or events, we can quickly change and find the right facial expression for ourselves. It is as easy to change expressions and states of being and to pull back to what most people see as normal in an instant as it is to change masks. These works show their real facial expressions, as well as fake looks blended together.about the photographer
He is a 24 years old Asian male living in the United States and trying to survive every god damnit day of his life. He calls himself Francis, but his real name is Shou-En Chiang, (江守恩). He is a film and digital photographer, cinematographer, video editor, performing artist, and former theater performer. In 2016, he graduated with a theater major in arts high school. He mastered the basics of photography from an arts high school with a major in theater and an interest in becoming a street photographer. He enjoyed photographing and observing people's actions and movements, which has become the subject of much of his creative work. The existentialism of theater and surrealism inspired him to create each piece of art. He had been jumping between business and art during that time and didn’t expect to go to the United States by himself the following year. He had to adapt to a major issue in his life, loneliness, which became a topic he would discuss in his art. He uses video, photo, and performing art as a medium and has created many artworks that revolve around the many themes of life, with existentialism, and surrealist comedy.back to gallery