Formula for Victory

作品賞析

CHEN Wan-Jen’s videos integrate realistic imageries and virtual interpretations, converting everyday scenes observed at public areas and rearranging them to form a new video. In Formula for Victory, CHEN Wan-Jen reinterprets Taiwan’s famous pigeon races with an entertaining background music to generate a comedic effect. The pigeons in the film chose to forego flying and instead engaged in a land race by running about in different ways while carrying a flag on their backs, creating a humorous sight of stumbling pigeons on a race track. By employing video-editting techniques, CHEN Wan-Jen has subtly converted seemingly familiar public settings into surprising and astonishing scenes that revolutionize the visual order we are familiar with.