Eric Chang

ARTIST STATEMENT

I work in the subliminal space between the cinematic and the photographic. My art, whether cinema or photography, explores extreme opposites and strives to merge them into a single, cohesive expression. The works are beautifully bizarre, often evoking a sense of insecurity and danger in the observer. It's the ambivalence, mystery and intensity inherent in the works that generates an unsettling energy that I find beautiful and challenging. I strive to create images that simultaneously represent loneliness, solitude, harmony, dissonance.

I see myself as a visual storyteller. I find a rupture in the story and freeze the unfinished storyline, distorting visual concept to create works that are intense, dramatic and mysterious.

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BIOGRAPHY

Eric Chang is a photographer and film director. The son of a sculptor and a ceramic designer, he spent his early years in his parent's workshop writing poetry, sketching with charcoals, and sculpting gypsum. As a young boy, Eric had a passion for music and learned classical piano when he was five years old. He later became a concert pianist when he was only ten and made his first recording at the age of twelve.

His film, AEXIS, won the American Society of Cine...