Arch

作品賞析

Artist Chiang Yi-Jin once had to wear a cast due to an injury, so she had the incisive experience of feeling like she was dragging her limbs just to move around. She transformed this experience of being unable to move freely into her work, Arch. She modeled the sole of a person’s foot into the shape of a bow and titled it with a pun: the arch of a foot. She used plaster casts to create the figures of a person’s lower body and sole touching each other, and deliberately retained the traces of the plaster molding process. The fragile nature of plaster is like that of the human body: both need protection. Chiang Yi-Jin attempts to present a sense of danger in her works, making them with unstable material structures. The bow-shaped plaster sculpture leans against a small wooden box, maintaining a tense sense of balance by relying on steel cables suspended from wooden arrows on the wall, conveying that the body has been injured and has lost its function.The bow-shaped plaster statue leans against a small wooden box, maintaining a tense sense of balance by relying on steel cables suspended from wooden arrows on the wall, conveying that the body has been injured and has lost its function. It is the sense of powerlessness that a carefree heart may feel, when confined to an injured body.