Curatorial Essay "Battleground Girls" Text by Chen Fei-Hao

Editorial

"In this solo exhibition themed on war, Chen Ching-Yao chooses the perspective of Battleground Girls as his entry point. The images he created are still in the style of anime. Through mixing historical and contemporary times as well as the approach of cosplay, he revisits and reconstructs Taiwanese people’s WWII experience, and employs this context to strike a dialogue with the virtual space of unlimited warfare, which is the global situation that this island must now deal with." - Chen Fei-Hao