Chih-Chien Wang. Archaeology of Insignificance

Chih-Chien Wang. Archaeology of Insignificance

Archaeology of Insignificance brings together, for the first time, three video installations, produced in 2014–15, that Chih-Chien Wang conceived of as a trilogy on the processes of memory.

Archaeology of Insignificance brings together, for the first time, three video installations, produced in 2014–15, that Chih-Chien Wang conceived of as a trilogy on the processes of memory. At the Galerie de l’Université de Montréal, Wang creates a dialogue among the narratives featured in the works I Want to Be Reminded, A Helper, and The Act of Forgetting, originally presented, respectively, at EXPRESSION, Les Territoires, and Fonderie Darling. Playing on ruptures and connections, the presentation activates both the characters’ and the viewers’ bodies and subjectivities. This memory of insignificance, which is made and unmade through our gestures, relationships, and emotions, is also transposed into photographic images and into an installation presenting objects and words chosen by Wang, which audiences are invited to appropriate and exchange.