Poetry of the Flow, Manifesta 12, Palermo, Italy (2018)

Performance view, Poetry of the Flow, 2018, ink on paper

Performance view, Poetry of the Flow, 2018, ink on paper

Studio view, Poetry of the Flow, 2018, ink on paper

Performance view (artist painted with eyes shut and moved with the rhythm of music), Poetry of the Flow, 2018, ink on cotton bedsheet, 200 × 200 cm

The Journey — God’s Blessings Abound (Impromptu Forms series), 2018, ink and pencil on canvas, 28 × 39.3 cm

Exhibition view, Heaven and Earth 1 (Mortal World series), 2016, ink on linen, two rolls from a set of six, hexaptych, each roll 2000 × 1600 cm

Exhibition view, Jehovah (Impromptu Forms series), 2018, ink on linen and cotton sheets, variable dimensions: overall installation 360 × 800 cm; each cotton sheet 360 × 160 cm; linen sheet 2000 × 210 cm

Poetry of the Flow #1 (Impromptu Forms series), 2018, ink on paper and linen mounted on canvas, 170 × 400 cm

Poetry of the Flow #4 (Impromptu Forms series), 2018, ink on paper and linen mounted on canvas, 170 × 300 cm

Poetry of the Flow, Manifesta 12, Palermo, Italy (2018)

For Poetry of the Flow, Chang created a large, immersive space covering floor and walls with calligraphically rendered faces in ink on paper. Working with a variety of brushes, he rapidly conjured the faces with expressive lines, evoking the gamut of human emotions. In addition to the usual painting supports, he employed local bed sheets as a base for his painting, finding them to be a common sight, hung outside to dry: accordingly, he hung his outside, too. As an additional performative extension to the exhibition, he held a series of painting workshops.
— Britta Erickson