I am very interested in activities, space and time in Metro Station – Taipei. Everything looks well-organized, clean, neon box displayed around the corner of the wall, invite people to shopping and consuming the products or service. But when we look outside in several stations such as Taipei Main Station, Longshan Temple, we can see a very contrast view. Many homeless sit or sleeping around the park, carrying suitcases or stroller contains of their luggage. Many of them are men who are elderly. There is an irony here, how time advances, improved quality of life, overall can not really be humanizing. The rich are more loved, the poor ones abandoned on the streets. Maybe it is how capitalism works, as we are often put our personal needs or interest above everything.
Based from that, then I responds to ads image by replacing the human object and products with the speciality items belonging of the homeless. Creating an image that is contradictory, we know that the ads made for people who have money and doesn’t think about how we eat today or tomorrow. This work then applied resembling like a postcard, with full photo images in the front side, and texts in the back side. In the message form, there are some texts in Taiwanese language: “This postcards is worth 20 dollars Taiwan. You can pay it by giving or buying things which sold by homeless.” The postcards are printed and distributed to art galleries and book stores around the city of Taipei.
Postcard, 2016
