All the Others

"All the others was quite spontaneously formulated, as most of my works. I did not rehearse the performance recorded for the piece, and everything happened without a script. 

I have always been driven by ‘recorded performances’ in which the performance itself is the essence of the work. It's quite different from a video art that is devoted to pure images, sound, light. I love hidden narratives and performative sculptures.

My works are actually autobiographical, and this piece comes from my own experience of living as a foreigner in Europe. It deals with the isolation that I feel from time to time.

All the Others is a work of reflection to all. It could be me on that staircase, it could be you or anyone of us. This kind of ‘reflective dialogue’ is often generated in my artistic production. 

This piece discusses individual and collective experiences. These experiences are both contemporary and historical, and, inside them, the work addresses issues such as social status, identity, transculturalism and portraiture. All the Others confronts these issues with silence, the visual silence of an individual."

Hou Chien Cheng​ in a statement to PLATFORM:VB (October 2013)