Trapezoidal Seats Around a Circle

作品賞析

WANG Da-Jen’s oil paintings focus on abandoned public areas, generating views that appear like cold, unfeeling photographs with a sense of distance to highlight the isolation and allow people to achieve mental and spiritual peace as well as personal reflection. Trapezoidal Seats around a Circle illustrates a circular plaza decorated with elevated and near-barren flowerbeds in a dark, uniform tone. These artificial constructs and the scant few bushes growing from them highlights the loneliness and isolation compared to the surrounding natural landscape, and the fact that construction established in response to human wants is often quickly abandoned and left to crumble on its own. WANG Da-Jen uses artwork as a silent reflection of cultural violence generated by a profit-driven society.