| The Days was inspired by photographs randomly taken in my daily life, which are kept on my computer as part of an electronic album. When you see these images, you go on a trip down memory lane. Memories are triggered by personal experience. While some of the memories are re-enhanced, others are gradually forgotten. The Days is a video installation composed of four TV screens. The stories on each screen come from the same source, which is my electronic photo album. But each story is told in a different way. As a result, the stories seem to vary slightly from one another. In fact, it’s like observing one story from four different angles. | 
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Chen Shao-Xiong
The Days was inspired by photographs randomly taken in my daily life, which are kept on my computer as part of an electronic album. When you see these images, you go on a trip down memory lane. Memories are triggered by personal experience. While some of the memories are re-enhanced, others are gradually forgotten.
The Days is a video installation composed of four TV screens. The stories on each screen come from the same source, which is my electronic photo album. But each story is told in a different way. As a result, the stories seem to vary slightly from one another. In fact, it’s like observing one story from four different angles.
The four TV screens are placed in four different positions, from high to low. As viewers watch the TV, they change the posture, which influences how they feel while they are watching—from four different perspectives, bringing a multitude of possibilities.
These memories are very personal as they are adapted from photographs of my daily life. I continue creating videos the way I’ve been doing for the past two years, which is translate photographs into watercolor paintings and put them into a video, accompanied by stories I told when I saw these images. Every time I look at the same photograph, the story I tell may be completely different.
