The Promised Happiness
Chiang Chi-Ming
江基名
Production date
2016
Object Detail
Media
oil on camphorwood
Measurements
150 x 53 x 40 cm
Notes
Chiang Chi-Ming works primarily with wood to create figurative sculptures that explore teenage melancholy and states of awkward uncertainty. He often uses the figure of a teenage girl to embody this liminal state and to reflect upon his own past social interactions. Here, his subject, her eyes closed as if sleepwalking, seems to grasp at the title’s ‘promised happiness’. But her hands are empty, and the promise remains elusive.
Accession number
2016.257