Chia-Wei HSU
Born in Taichung, Taiwan, in 1983, Chia-Wei Hsu is currently based between Taipei and Maastricht, the Netherlands. He is an artist, filmmaker, and curator who integrates the languages of cinema and contemporary art to interrogate the intricate mechanisms of image production. His work centers on the material and performative dimensions of the cinematic production process, treating the act of filming as an event in its own right. This approach enables him to forge connections among people, materials, and sites that have been marginalized or excluded from dominant historical narratives.Hsu’s work critically examines media as a tool for constructing imaginaries of the world. He explores how technologies of image-making operate not only as instruments of memory but also as vehicles for projecting cosmological perspectives. By reactivating historical documents and colonial-era films, Hsu generates contemporary reflections on the past, recontextualizing archival materials to produce new layers of meaning in the present.