「媽媽的時光計畫」，是一具有歷史意涵的「自傳體式」自拍人像創意作品。自己既是女性攝影家，又是被拍攝的主角之一。從懷孕到生子之後 15 年，每隔一段時間，就以自拍方式留影。每次的快門，都利用上次的影相當背景，記錄自己、丈夫與兒子間的親子關係；影像與背景的堆疊，也呈現時光與親子關係的累積。藉由母職與時光的探討來達成「自我瞭解」與「重活一次」的計劃。以母子共構的藝術創作方式，牽引出內在深度的自我省思。這樣的藝術創作行動，證明了母職不再只是個「犧牲自我」的代名詞，而是可細細品味並促成豐富且多彩的自我成長。
Wang, a Ph.D. graduate from the School of Arts and Communications at the UK's University of Brighton, has long focused on such themes as female identify and visual culture, producing paintings, videos, mixed media works and installations on these subjects. A full-time artist and artistic director of Ching Tien Art Space, Wang is also an assistant professor at National Dong Hwa University's Department of Arts and Design and Taipei Municipal University of Education's Department of Visual Arts. Since her "Marriage" series was exhibited in 1997 at the Taipei Fine Art Museum, Wang has produced a steady output of work for solo and group exhibitions in Taiwan, the UK and other countries. In 2002 she was named one of Taiwan's distinguished female photographers in the book History of Contemporary Taiwan Women Artists.
"Mother's time chart" is a self-portrait series redolent with historical meaning, in which Wang doubles as the female photographer and one of the protagonists. Beginning when she is visibly pregnant, the series continues at intervals for the next 15 years with pictures taken using a self-timer. Many of the pictures have their backdrop the immediately preceding shot to record the progression in the personal relationships between her, her husband and her child; the piling up of the images and the background illustrate how the parent-child relationship accumulates over time. Wang uses her experience of motherhood and a meditation on the passage of time in pursuit of self-understanding and "remembrance of things past". She uses the artistic portrayal of the mother-son relationship to tease out the actors' inner thoughts, to prove that motherhood is not just a form of self-sacrifice, but something to be savored and which can contribute to rich and colourful personal growth.
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