Lin Ching-Che was born in Chiba Prefecture, Japan in 1988, currently lives and grew up in Taoyuan, Taiwan. In 2017, he completed his master degree from Applied Arts (Ceramics) Department in National Tainan University of Arts. Lin's creation focuses on exploring the existence of the body and self-identity. Lin practices his work through a set of pre-planned procedure, by digging or filling the porcelain to a single object in long hour and long period. The process of creation, the passage of time, the rhythm of the body, and the close contacting with the medium, is the ritual of his creation. As the object of the body's existence, the texture on the surface of artwork are the traces left after labor.
In the process of making ceramics, the most common use of slip is grouting. With the mold, the clay can be attached to the existing frame to form. For the artist, the frame is removed and the slip is attached to the surface where there is nothing. All molding is done at every moment when the catalyst material is touched. This moment is matched with the time for the slip to contact the air surface to quickly dry up to 3 minutes. All the actions are completed in this 3 minutes, so this is also a kind of framework, which represents the traditional framework. In another frame represents the artist’s creative method, the body is intuitive, pure, and fun in these three minutes, and all the movements are for this moment to escape thoughts and rationality.
Draw lines on a piece of wet mud, and then let the clay remember every moment of action. After firing, the medium itself transmits light so that the traces of each line can be seen more clearly. Maybe it’s not the point. The point is the negative space created by the moment when the mud was painted. The negative space is recorded because of the medium, and then clearly seen by the light, but what the artist really pays attention to is that. Space that no longer exists.
Lin Ching-Che was born in Chiba Prefecture, Japan in 1988, currently lives and grew up in Taoyuan, Taiwan. In 2017, he completed his master degree from Applied Arts (Ceramics) Department in National Tainan University of Arts. Lin has participated in artist-in-residence programmes in the University of South Carolina and University of Missouri in USA, as well as Arctic Ceramic Center in Finland. Lin received honorable mention award on Austronesian International Art Award 2018 and 2018 ITAMI International Craft Exhibition. He also participated in numerous international ceramic art exhibitions such as “Asian Modern Ceramic Art Exhibition” in 2017, and the “2015’Contemporary Asian Ceramics Exchange Exhibition” in 2015.
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