Wild Aspirations-The Yellow Sheep River Project: Solo Exhibition by Chou Ching-hui
Yellow Sheep River is the name of a rural village in Gansu Province, China. It became well-known because of Mr. WEN Shiren’s computer assistance program. WEN Shiren chose Yellow Sheep River to realize his dream of turning a rural village into a hub with the help of technology in the hope that such a program could be extended to the other parts of China and the entire world to quickly raise the quality of living for the poor.
At first, Chou Ching-hui went to Yellow Sheep River to document this charity program. Accidentally, he found a more attractive and artistic theme – the village children’s imagination of computers and their creative impulse as inspired by the foreign stuff. The documentary photographer Chou began to think about how to express the dreams in the children’s mind.
Chou’s works are about the relationship between human beings and dreams. Thus, documentary photography becomes a carrier for modern culture, to depict and being depicted, to watch and being watched, to document and being documented. Through his intervention, the artist creates an imaginative space of combining people, society and the locality. The seemingly simple pictures capture the surreal colors and images with a variety of post-modern elements hidden inside and present a unique category of modern photography.（by Yang Zhao）
This re-creation clip is edited and directed by Richard Chen, containing three of his image-creation works. Materials for each fragment are about either the art history or the art market. Taste it slowly and you will realize his concepts. Please notice that the materials are chosen for needs of concepts, and absolutely NOT concerning with plitics, religious beliefs or idol worship.
蝙蝠放棄以視覺來接收訊息而以高頻超音波、回聲定位達成其目標，竟而讓我想到了西元19-20世紀法國後印象派偉大的藝術家高更（Paul Gauguin，1848－1903），說的一句話︰「為了看見，我閉上眼睛」( I close my eyes in order to see ) ，似乎二者不同的體現卻有著相同的深蘊意涵。
