Hao-Yu Chang, born in Taoyuan, Taiwan in 2000, lives and works in Taoyuan. In 2022, he graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at National Taipei University of the Arts and is currently studying at the Department of Fine Arts at National Taiwan Normal University of the Arts.
Animals that Serve the Frame considers how taxidermied animals, once collected and displayed within a frame, can resemble paintings. The frame becomes an accessory to the act of looking at a painting. A sense of curiosity emerges as several legs are dug out—some resembling sheep’s legs, others like pig’s trotters—peering outward at the landscape from within a cabinet of curiosities. The work becomes a timid yet deeply attached act of looking.
