I’ M NOT FOOD!

I’ M NOT FOOD!

Solo Exhibition by Justin Chiang Chin Pang

3 – 27/9/2014

Opening: 3/9/2014 18:30

Rui Cunha Foundation Gallery

Cocktail

Free Admission

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Newspapper: 2014-09-19 times – im not food!

Co-organizer: FRC, Borderless Art

Sponser: Glass Nine Art

I am not food!

All living things need food to give them energy to grow, some to move.

Green plants make their own food.

Animals cannot produce their own food. They restore energy by consuming other living things.

A food chain is a linear sequence of how all organisms are related with each other by the food they eat.

Every day, human beings consume various categories of food. They eat vegetables and animals. They also eat additives. They even eat rubbish. When human put “animals” into their mouths, have they ever thought about how the lives of the animals was before they became “food”?

Eating other animals is not a kind of guilt as it is a part of the food chain. However, factory farming industry makes livestock live in extremely stressful conditions. They will never raise their families or do anything that is natural and important to them. To what extent the cruelty has to be serious enough to make people reflect on what they have done?

It seems that people have forgotten that all organisms are interrelated, animals do not exist only for fulfilling human’s desire for food.

Justin Chiang Chin Pang

Graduated from School of Arts, Macau Polytechnic Institute, Justin is a Macao artist and has been devoted in art education in different art organizations.

Solo exhibitions include Heroes (Creative Macau), Origin (Color Forest Art Space, Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Innermost (St. Paul’s Corner, Macau), and Endless (Pavilion of Exhibition and Exposition by Youth Artists, Macau).

His works have been selected in various local and international art exhibitions, including Art Trace (Portugal), Aroma of Art 2010 (Paris, France), National Exhibition of Fine Arts (Mainland China), The 13^th International Biennial Print Exhibition (Taiwan), Macao Annual Art Exhibition and Collective Exhibition of Macao Artists (Macao).

Collectors include National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts and private collectors.