Candy Chang

Since ancient times, carving text into clay and stone has been a way to commemorate events, preserve beliefs, and memorialize the dead. In her Epitaph series, Chang applies equal reverence to select handwritten responses from visitors to her participatory...

The Chinese chop or seal has been used for thousands of years and is still used as an official form of signature. Chang's Static series is informed by the enduring use of seals and the calligraphic discipline of replicating venerated texts as an act...

Assembled from visitors’ responses to Chang’s participatory installations, the Mass series features portraits of collective anxieties, pains, insights, and desires that consume society today. Implementing ink transfer techniques, Chang hand-cuts and...

Hailed as one of the Four Treasures of the Study, black ink has been revered in Asian cultures for thousands of years as an essential tool for scholars, calligraphers, and painters. Using traditional Chinese ink made from the soot of charred pine tree...