Chuanxing Chen：No Candle then to

 Chen Chuanxing is a Chinese photographer, film director, and PhD in Linguistics from the French Higher School of Social Sciences. He interprets the modern aspects of Taiwan on a philosophical basis, and he can implicitly see the influence and unique style of important French philosophy and intellectual traditions. The title of "No Candle then to" comes from "Shao Yi" in "Book of Rites": if there is no candle, those who arrive later will be reported as the present. "" means "being in a dark place, and those who come first tell those who come later to use the dark place."

This photography collection contains 119 daily images of Taiwan from the 1970s to the 1980s. It is not intended to emphasize the photographer’s aesthetics or the technique of playing with light and shadow, nor is it to talk about photography as a communication language or tool, and it is not about micro-personal or macro-societal memories, but Forty years after the silver salt had condensed, 119 of them were taken out of the many lost and damaged negatives.

When we watch this series of works, it means that the world seen by the young Chen Chuanxing is being watched, but the world of the young Chen Chuanxing is being watched through the lens of a camera—which happens to be a machine to watch. This is a double view, an overlapping plural world.