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Airliner Shootdown Incidents
民航機擊落事件

​2024
Postcards, acrylic shelves
10 x 30 x 5 cm each, 15 in total
Airliner Shootdown Incidents (2024) compiles images of various commercial aircrafts shot down and turns them into postcards—a cheap, casual, and easily forgotten travel souvenir. At first glance, postcards featuring aircraft evoke entirely different associations, such as joyful memorabilia of significant models or routes. Yet, these incidents were major international tragedies intricately tied to global politics and history. Over time, such events fade into obscurity, much like postcards themselves—ubiquitous yet barely noticed.
〈民航機擊落事件〉(2024)搜集多架被擊落的民航機影像,並製作成了多款明信片-一種廉價、隨手、容易被遺忘的旅遊紀念品。乍看之下,印有飛機照片的明信片會帶來完全相反的想像,如重要機型或航班的雀躍紀念品。然而民航機擊落事件都曾是重大國際災難,它們與國際情勢及歷史息息相關。最終,這些事件逐漸淡化成一種被忽略的存在,就像明信片在旅途中的角色,無所不在,卻又似有似無。
Clear-air Turbulence
28 December, 2024 - 23 January, 2025
Back_y, Taipei, Taiwan

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