​台灣「美景」錄像版
"Vision of Taiwan" Video Version​


Vision of Taiwan expresses Wu Cheng-Chang’s observations, experiences and opinions regarding his experience of being in specific environments. Using light, time and light sensing materials, Wu creates images of scenery characteristic of Taiwan that between “beautiful” and “not beautiful” to present absurdist contradictions. His work produces intrinsic speculation and struggles in viewers.
 
Furthermore, Wu inserts himself in these scenic photos by flashing bright light on his face to form an image, a process of accumulation, shattering and blinding that suggests the peril in Taiwan’s scenery. This peril is the result of long term political, economic and cultural factors, and living in such an environment, we can only “look without seeing”.
 
The subject of the video is the photography in this exhibition, and its soundtrack leads viewers through reality and fantasy worlds suggesting transformations and contradictions in the environment. In the video’s transition from reality to the surreal atmosphere of Wu’s photographs, a loud sound is suddenly introduced which momentarily draws viewers into an exceedingly complex affective state.

台灣「美景」系列是吳政璋對身處環境表達個人的觀察、體驗及意見，透過「攝影」在光、時間、感光材料的巧妙運用下，照片中這些具有「台灣特質」的場景在「美」與「不美」之間呈現一種荒謬的矛盾感受，提供觀者一連串的內在思辯與掙扎。

另一方面，吳政璋置身於「美景」中，使用瞬間強光在臉部「累積」與「破壞」，造成人臉的「盲目」與「失明」，暗示了長時間以來因政治、經濟、文化等因素所累積造成的環境危機，生活在其中的我們只能「視而不見」。

影片中將觀者帶入拍攝現場，並藉由聲音讓觀者游移在現實與非現實之間，暗示環境的改變與矛盾。在影片的現實轉換至照片的超現實氛圍過程中，一個介入而突兀的聲響，瞬間將觀者帶入一個極為複雜的情緒當中。