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YUNG-JEN CHAN Una colección a cielo abierto y un mapa
Línea de Costa Contemporary Art & Culture Visual Magazine issue #18# PINEA A.I.R. special issue
Línea de Costa Contemporary Art & Culture Visual Magazine issue #18# PINEA A.I.R. special issue EDITOR / PUBLISHER Asociación Cultural LINEA DE COSTA DIRECTOR / EDITOR Pablo Alonso de la Sierra Rocío Arévalo Vargas DISEÑO / DESIGN LosVendaval FOTOGRAFÍA / PHOTOGRAPHY Yung-Jen Chan / Pinea-Línea de Costa A.I.R. COLABORADORES / CONTRIBUTORS Isabel Figueroa ISSN 2340-1 575 CÁDIZ (SPAIN) www.magazine.lineadecosta.net
P I N E A- LI N E A D E C O S TA A. I . R . E S P AC I O P I N E A ART G ALLE RY Avda. de Sevilla 22, Rota 1 1 520 Spain pineaonair@lineadecosta.net www.pinea.org
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Una colecciรณn a cielo abierto y un mapa
An Open-Air Collection and A Map A site-specific project for PINEA-LINEA DE COSTA As an artist (also known as unprofessional tourist), although I would love to visit those famous attractions, I’m also curious where do local people like to go here. I asked people who live here to help me to explore this beautiful town by telling me their favorite place here and reason. Then I had many small one-day trips by my own, tried to experience this place not only by eyes but also by other senses. After the research, I made different works for each place. In my previous works, usually I use plaster to cast and collect traces by humans in cities, but this time I use transparent silicone (yes it’s the thing you fix your bathroom tub) to cast the texture of different places. These moulds I made solidified the air surrounded by and captured traces, dust, rocks or everything on it, showing the evidence that something/ someone was here. And I found the progress, this period of time that I have to wait until it’s dry, is quite interesting. These pieces of silicone aren't just casting, or being a mould by themselves, also they’ve become an indistinct mark to tag that certain place or object. Then I decided to leave my works at those places for a temporary open-air exhibition, from the day I cast till the day before I leave. You can only see them by accident or by the map I draw. I made a private tour map for Rota with information of useful shops that Pablo & Ro, the curators, gave us, some shop I went often, those ‘favorite places’ that local people kindly recommended me, and locations of my works. Chan Yung-Jen
LĂnea de Costa Contemporary Art & Culture Visual Magazine issue #18# PINEA A.I.R. special issue