LAN Chung-Hsuan
Lan Chung-Husan (藍仲軒, b.1991) is a Taipei-based artist whose work centers on the violence of war and politics. Through photography, readymades, and installation, he exposes the inherent absurdities embedded in these systems. Since participating in Babylone – U.S.A.(The Boiler, New York, 2016), he has presented his work internationally, including at the Suwon International Photo Festival (Suwon, 2022), and the 10th Asia-Europe Mediations Biennale (Istanbul, 2023). He has received numerous awards, including Arte Laguna Prize (2022) and TDCC Contemporary Art Award (2020).
Target Sheet's Flying Time
Target sheets, Dimension variable, 2021
Taiwanese artist Lan Chung-Hsuan focuses on the structural violence of war and politics, often dismantling such systems through playful gestures. In Target Sheet's Flying Time, he isolates the act of “shooting” as the most fundamental unit of warfare.
Using actual target sheets from Taiwanese military training, he folds them into paper airplanes and sets them flying. With a simple flick of the hand, these paper planes imitate the trajectory of bullets as they glide silently through the air.
In the moment when a deadly tool of violence is transformed into a childlike object of play, the meaning of war is momentarily disarmed.
