The Artist I Unexpectedly Met – T.C. Chang at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum
The Artist I Unexpectedly Met – T.C. Chang at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum

Text and images by Chen Chi-Hsiang

"My work is not a single piece, but a lifetime."

Hsieh Ting-Chu

The artist said: "In the art world, when people talk about my work, they might refer to those documents. But there is an earlier part of it, which is time [⋯]. Art is not about the final text or documents presented; it is an intuition of life. Writers use words, but that does not mean their art is just that. Just as one cannot say Work Year is merely those documents. We are trying to capture something that cannot be explained in language or a few sentences."