Yu-Chen Hung
Migratory
Migratory is one of my experiments with new material. For this collage, I collected printmaking pieces from classmates with different identities, shredded them and reassembled them into a brand-new dynamic identity. By recontextualization, I destroy the original meanings of fish, stone lion and astronaut and make them components of a new symbol, by which I want to let the viewers rethink about the meaning of the symbol and the essence of their own identity.
artist inspiration
When I was younger, I only created art pieces for myself and I considered art as a tool for self-entertainment at that time. But after having conversations with different people on the Internet from a few years ago, I notice that many people care too much about the world around them such as finance, environment and politics than themselves: their own identity, memory, subconscious and ego. So I decided to make my artwork a mirror of reflection for people to look at themselves again and to encourage them to care more about themselves
artist biography
Yu-Chen Hung is a Chinese student in his fourth year of Visual Studies Undergraduate at the University of Calgary. He has always been discovering and interpreting his own philosophy, dreams and subconscious through his art practices under the influence of surrealism, automatism and subcultures such as dreamcore. He is influenced by people around him, he considers today’s society “too altruistic” and want to make people “selfish” again and to care more about themselves than the world around them.