Person
Artist
Kuo Chia-Ling
郭嘉羚
Date of birth
1979
Place Of birth
Taoyuan, Taiwan, Asia
Biography
Kuo Chia-Ling was born in 1979 in Taoyuan, Taiwan. She graduated with a Master’s Degree from the Graduate Institute of Applied Arts, Tainan National University of the Arts, before being awarded a doctorate in Art Creation and Theory from Tainan National University of the Arts in 2018. Awarded with Taipei Arts Award and S-An Arts Award, she was also artist-in residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris, granted by the Office of Cultural Affairs of Taiwan. Her works are owned by a number of public and private collectors, such as National Taiwan Art Museum.
Kuo Chia-Ling is interested in theories of perception and language – her work explores how aspects of daily life can be transformed into something magical and mysterious through the language of cinema. In particular, she is fascinated by body language and the mediation between bodily experience and how the mind constructs meaning. In the Red Lip series a lipsticked mouth speaks, but the video is silent: speech becomes mysterious and open to multiple, overlapping interpretations.
Kuo Chia-Ling is interested in theories of perception and language – her work explores how aspects of daily life can be transformed into something magical and mysterious through the language of cinema. In particular, she is fascinated by body language and the mediation between bodily experience and how the mind constructs meaning. In the Red Lip series a lipsticked mouth speaks, but the video is silent: speech becomes mysterious and open to multiple, overlapping interpretations.
