LINEA DE COSTA MAGAZINE issue 18 / YUNG-JEN CHAN

ISSN 2340-1 575
YUNG-JEN CHAN
Una colección a cielo abierto y un mapa
Línea de Costa
Contemporary Art & Culture Visual M agazine
issue #18#
PINEA A.I.R. special issue

Línea de Costa
Contemporary Art & Culture Visual M agazine
issue #18#
PINEA A.I.R. special issue
EDITOR / PUBLISHER
Asociación Cultural LINEA DE COSTA
DIRECTOR / EDITOR
Pablo Alonso de la Sierra
Rocío Arévalo Vargas
DISEÑO / DESIGN
LosVendaval
FOTOGRAFÍA / PHOTOGRAPHY
Yung-Jen Chan / Pinea-Línea de Costa A.I.R.
COLABORADORES / CONTRIBUTORS
Isabel Figueroa
ISSN 2340-1 575
CÁDIZ (SPAIN)
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Linea de Costa Contemporary Art & Culture Visual Magazine es una publicación independiente. Publicación sujeta a licencia Creative Commons.
Linea de Costa Contemporary Art & Culture Visual Magazine is an independent publication. Under Creative Commons License.

Una
colección
a cielo abierto
y un mapa

An Open-Air Collection and A Map
A site-specific project for PINEA-LINEA DE COSTA
As an artist (also known as unprofessional tourist), although
I would love to visit those famous attractions, I’m also
curious where do local people like to go here. I asked
people who live here to help me to explore this beautiful
town by telling me their favorite place here and reason.
Then I had many small one-day trips by my own, tried to
experience this place not only by eyes but also by other
senses. After the research, I made different works for each
place.
In my previous works, usually I use plaster to cast and
collect traces by humans in cities, but this time I use
transparent silicone (yes it’s the thing you fix your bathroom
tub) to cast the texture of different places. These moulds I
made solidified the air surrounded by and captured traces,
dust, rocks or everything on it, showing the evidence that
something/ someone was here.
And I found the progress, this period of time that I have to
wait until it’s dry, is quite interesting. These pieces of
silicone aren't just casting, or being a mould by themselves,
also they’ve become an indistinct mark to tag that certain
place or object. Then I decided to leave my works at those
places for a temporary open-air exhibition, from the day I
cast till the day before I leave. You can only see them by
accident or by the map I draw. I made a private tour map for
Rota with information of useful shops that Pablo & Ro, the
curators, gave us, some shop I went often, those ‘favorite
places’ that local people kindly recommended me, and
locations of my works.
Chan Yung-Jen

Línea de Costa
Contemporary Art & Culture Visual M agazine
issue #18#
PINEA A.I.R. special issue