Hui-Hsin Chang

Since the late 19th century, with the development of capital, transportation, and internet technologies, and the rapid accelerated pace of globalization, the economical, cultural, and knowledge transmission between countries has become increasingly tight, and cross-border movement has become the norm for citizens of the world. In the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak in 2019, austerity policies at borders have slowed down the pace of cross-border travel, creating room for negotiation between global and local relationships, and isolation policies during the pandemic have forced activities in the physical world to turn to the internet. As a physical medium for transmitting landscapes, images took part in the imagination of the others in constructing places and play an important role in the process of global tourism and consumption. Artist Hui-Hsin Chang’s work Here and Elsewhere uses landscape photos circulating on the Internet as content, capturing consumers’ imagination of famous landscapes through landscape photos belonging to the globalized tourism, and in the physical form of tourist attractions and their graphic arrangement, explores the logic of desire behind the globalization of images in capitalism and tourism.

— Curator｜Wei-Lun Chen