Chen-Chih Tan
My work explores the opposite of 'home'. I have been documenting deserted houses, looking at misplaced objects and have eventually taken the idea of rearrangement to create portraits. For the series, I have removed my subjects from their original contexts to the dwellings of others. The unusual engagements between their bodies and the new environments reflect the unhomely experience of displacement. By imposing a new order on things in my photographs, I wish to question the notion of belonging and to illustrate the performance of identity.
Elle Andrews • Thea Baddiley • Francesca Centioni • Daria Danowska • Giuditta Del Vecchio • Billy Easter • Lærke Feld Andersen • Una Hamilton Helle • Michael Linington • Benedict Morgan • Brighitta Moser • Keith Nim-Yan Chan • Rhona O'Brien • Claire Page • Isabella Pitisci • Robert Reid • Ida Riveros • Renata Szur • Chen-Chih Tan • Nikki de Gruchy •
Camberwell College of Arts
BA (Hons) Photography
Cleveland College of Art & Design
BA (Hons) Photography
Dublin Institute of Technology
BA (Hons) Photography
Edinburgh College of Art
BA (Hons) Visual Communication - Photography