Modified, shifted or transferred elements amounting to new relationships between status and object: herein lies the pulse of Chou Yu-Cheng’s (b. 1976) practice that builds, across multiple mediums, a subtle critique of mass media, institutions and the mechanisms that produce them. A graduate from l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, and the research programme La Seine, Chou has gained international recognition for his dialectical interplay between the source and results of his creations. Through his selective conversations, Chou shapes a minimal yet deliberate set of intellectual and aesthetic tricks, which ultimately play on the properties of art, object and space.


Chou Yu-Cheng was born in 1976 in Taipei, Taiwan. Chou currently lives and works in Taipei. Paintings, objects and performances are central to his practice, questioning society and the place of art within it. Installations have incorporated audiences, performers and the gallery space itself to examine the structure of cultural industries: how corporate sponsorship influences art institutions, as well as the role of less visible workers such as cleaners and security guards. His work has explored attitudes around hygiene and how new diseases have changed the way societies operate. Series of abstract paintings experiment with pigment and technique to explore ideas around nature and the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. Chou sees his work as an amalgamation of Western and Taiwanese traditions.

Chou Yu-Cheng 周育正

Bibliotheque #3, 2022