Exhibitions
Selected works

態: Alluvium

3rd May 2026 - 7th June 2026

ss space space


暗àm˙風hong˙沉tîm

Acrylic, compressed charcoal, paper pulp,
resin, plaster, epoxy resin, aluminum bars,
and wood panel

103.5cm x 151.5cm x 16cm




態: Alluvium

3rd May 2026 - 7th June 2026

ss space space
息層
sik-tsân

Paper pulp, resin, plaster, and aluminum

Dimension variable

2026




態: Alluvium

3rd May 2026 - 7th June 2026

ss space space
霧息
bū-sik

Acrylic, compressed charcoal, paper pulp,
 resin, rice ears, plaster, epoxy resin, wood panel, 
fabric fiber, and pencil on paper

(136cm x 170cm x 2.5cm ) x 3 pieces



態: Alluvium

3rd May 2026 - 7th June 202
6


ss space space
冉冉
liam liam

Acrylic, compressed charcoal, paper pulp,
resin, plaster, epoxy resin, aluminum bars,
and wood panel

62cm x 119.5cm x 16cm
2026


態: Alluvium

3rd May 2026 - 7th June 2026

ss space space
落lo̍h˙沉tîm

Acrylic, compressed charcoal, paper pulp,
resin, plaster, epoxy resin, aluminum bars,
and wood panel

100cm x 163cm x 16cm


2025-2026



Ban-Yuan Chang  張般源
About

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Born 1991 | Taipei, Taiwan

Ban-Yuan Chang’s practice examines how everyday perception is produced, mediated, and destabilized within the continuous flow of contemporary information and images. Chang focuses on how daily visual fragments—urban landscapes, social media feeds, circulated photographs, and intimate exchanges—shape our understanding of bodily form and lived experience.

Working across painting, sculptural installation, and text-based works, Chang reorganizes and compresses these visual and emotional elements to evoke the viscosity, delay, and weightlessness that emerge from excessive accumulation of information. Rather than responding directly to technology as a tool, Chang is interested in the subtle transformation of sensibility: how perception becomes fragmented yet remains faintly connected, how experience hovers between immediacy and abstraction.

Chang’s works create perceptual spaces where viewers encounter this suspended condition—an atmosphere in which the body appears both present and displaced, drifting within an environment saturated by images yet searching for new modes of attention.


張般源的創作主要關注人在當代資訊與影像洪流中,日常感知如何在此環境下被形塑與脫鉤。他試圖捕捉日常中的生活影像、景觀、社群平台與情感交流對身體形貌認知與生活感知的塑造,並透過跨媒材將這些元素進行重組與壓縮,呈現資訊過度堆疊下的黏稠、延遲與失重感。張般源的作品並非單純回應技術媒介,而是對人在當代生活中,那種趨近碎片卻又隱隱相連的感性經驗,其浮動與出神的狀態留下開放的感知空間。



Education

2024 Royal College of Art PhD in Arts & Humanities Research (practice-led) 

2017 Subsitute military service at New Taipei City Fire Department Ganyuan Squad

2016 Chelsea College of Arts MA Fine Art



Exhibitions
Solo show


2026 態: Alluvium, ss space space, Taipei, Taiwan

2024 圖 t ⤵u volume 03,  Yao space, Taichung, Taiwan

2024 圖 t__u volume 02,  182artspace, Tainan, Taiwan

2023 圖 t u, Helios Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2019 The Self, Humans and Machines with their Residues, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

2017 Meditation From the Empire Legacy, Made in Taiwan zone Young Artist Award,Taipei Art Fair , World Trade Centre, Taipei, Taiwan

Group show



2025 Can We All Fit In,Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Art, Kaohsiung,Taiwan

2024 The Gravity of Whisper,182 artspace,Tainan,Taiwan

2024 The Body Boundary of Contemporary Society, Wan Gallery, One Art Taipei, Hotel Metropolitan Premier Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan

2023 Lefties Do it Rights,Sinpin pier Art Space, Kaohsiung,Taiwan

2023 Repetition and Difference: Posthuman.Diverse Species, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University Art Centre, Hsinchu, Taiwan

2023 HEMLINGBY3, Taipei Artist Village/Carp Gallery, Taipei/Taichung, Taiwan 

2022 Roaming in time, Flame Taipei ,Waley Art, Taipei, Taiwan

2022 HEMLINGBY2, Carp Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan

2022 Body's Body, Changhua County Art Museum, Changhua,Taiwan 

2022 Multiple Copies - Readable Multiplex Landscape​, Tainan Art Museum, Tainan, Taiwan

2021 Enclave, Asparagus Studio, Taipei,  Taiwan 

2019 RCA The School of Arts and Humanities Work in Progress Show, Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom

2018 Human Condition, Kuo Mu Sheng Foundation,Taipei,Taiwan
2016 Future Island START ART FAIR Project, Saatchi Gallery,London, United Kingdom

2016 Chelsea Summer Show, Chelsea College of Arts, London, United Kingdom

Art reviewsChen, Yu-jen, 2026,  '踏火而行ーー張般源個展《態: Alluvium》 ( Walking Through Fire: Chang Ban-Yuan Solo Exhibition — Alluvium)', Taishin Artalks (online)

Huang, Ting-Ju, 2024, ‘ 墜落的鴿子踏上X征途 《張般源個展 圖 Volume02》 ‘, Taishin Artalks (online)


Press
‘ Chang, Ban-Yuan, 2023, Thesis, The shamanic condition of becoming posthuman: Being embedded in scattered landscapes PhD thesis, Royal College of Art.


Chang, Ban-Yuan, 'Enclave', in 'Multiple Copies - Readable Multiplex Landscape', ed. by Pei-Hsin Chiang​ (Tainan, Tainan Art Museum, 2022)ISBN: 978-986-5487-80-5 


Chang, Ban-Yuan, 'The Self, Humans and Machines with Their Residues: A brief discussion on our position in today's world and theses three inseparable and  entangled bounds' (Taipei, Taipei Fine Art Museum, 2019)。ISBN: 978-986-5412-21-0


Interview
隨意聊聊, 隨藝聊聊 EP17 | 靠X唷!你以為你在數位手術台上喔!快加入我們迷霧版圖中寫生的行列吧!|來賓: 藝術家 張般源 [Podcast] 25th April 2024  


觀弱音, EP126 『倫敦藝術沒有地圖』 藝術家張般源 [Podcast] 14th September 2023

Artistes Manifestes, Adélie Le Guen, Chang, Ban-Yuan, 'Entretien avec Ban-Yuan Chang : « Humanism in posthuman subject »'[online] 27th March 2020 

Tainan Art Museum, Following Artist #Chang Ban-yuan to Explore the Exhibition |Multiple Copies - Readable Multiplex Landscape [online video] 


Grants
2025 Regular Art Grants, Department of Cultural Affairs,Taipei City Government
2023 Regular Art Grants, Department of Cultural Affairs,Taipei City Government
2022 Regular Art Grants, National Culture and Arts Foundation
2022Regular Art Grants, Department of Cultural Affairs, Taipei City Government



Awards & Honors 2026 Nominee, The 25th Taishin Arts Award (Quarter 2), Taishin Bank Foundation for Arts and Culture, Taipei, Taiwan (For Solo Exhibition: "態: Alluvium" at ss space space)

2018 Selected Artist, Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM) Solo Exhibition Program, Taipei, Taiwan

2017 Made in Taiwan (MIT) Young Artist Discovery, Ministry of Culture, Taiwan (Exhibited at Art Taipei 2017)


Last Updated 24.10.31




態: Alluvium

3rd May 2026 - 7th June 2026

ss space space

In response to the digital overload of contemporary society, Ban-Yuan Chang materialises the everyday, transforming the familiar imagery and fleeting moments we are so accustomed to into tangible traces. Through his physical engagement with the materials, the viewers are invited to step into the space and observe how our daily experiences take shape—suspended in a delicate state between fluidity and sedimentation.                                                

 
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圖 tu  Volume 03

Solo show

7th December 2024 - 29th December 2024

Yáo space 窯座


The 圖 t__u Trilogy constructs a speculative fantasy that navigates the fragmented outlines of an objectified, "infobese" world—a landscape defined by the systemic malfunction of information digestion. This series serves as a profound reflection on the metamorphosis of identity and body image in an era where the human subject is increasingly reduced to a data point. By examining the "coloniality" of the body within technological imagery, the project envisions a non-narrative sensory realm: an "untitled future" where endless layers of storytelling collide like a territorial battle over the physical self. Rather than offering a dystopian prophecy or a political manifesto, the trilogy acts as a collective archive of fragmented information, mirroring the weightless, suspended state of the contemporary body in a hyperreal void.

Building upon the laboratory-like inquiry of the first volume and the staged landscapes of the second, the third installment marks a pivotal shift from "walking through the fog" to the tactile manifestation of an emerging subject. Through a multidisciplinary practice encompassing painting, fiction, sculpture, and installation, the artist employs a "makeshift" methodology to fill the narrative interstices of this imagined world. This process involves a symbiotic collaboration with AI as a co-author, the physical "drawing" of 3D-rendered digital models, and the meticulous production of fictional operation handbooks. By assembling these various "props" and technical depictions, the 圖 t__u Trilogy culminates in a world of "suspended materiality"—a detached yet palpable scenery that interrogates how we position and perceive our own existence amidst the relentless flow of digital information.

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圖 t_ _ u Volume 02

Solo show

22nd Feburary 2024 - 1st April 2024

182 artspace

It is a sediment of thoughts resembling those hidden within the digital network, an untitled field. This is its second form, yet there are still numerous gaps.

It is a narrative, a script of murmur, describing the landscapes of that world from Chat and I (Chang), a world shattered into fragments beneath the radiance of blue light. It delves into the musings of individuals within that world—him, his, and he and it—filling the gaps between ‘t’ and ‘u’, contemplating the flesh, wounds, love, contours, and forms existing in that world. There, thoughts are sustenance, savored with electricity, becoming what they should be, embodying the essence of "圖." .

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圖 t u Volume 01

Solo show

4th March 2023 - 25th March 2023

Helios Gallery

The inaugural chapter of the t__u series—phonetically evoking the Mandarin term for "image" (圖)—functions as a speculative self-disclosure rooted in science-fiction imagination. Its conceptual bedrock is formed by the interplay between teenage psychological trauma and Chang’s visceral experience as a paramedic (2016–2017). These formative encounters serve as a lens through which to interrogate the mechanisms of life, body-modeling, and identity production, mapping the trajectory of the individual within today’s "omniscient information community."

By adopting a perspective of "navigation" and "objecthood," this volume challenges the anthropocentric hierarchy of experience production. It examines the "colonization" of the human subject by ubiquitous imagery and data, extracting fragments from personal history to contemplate our existence in a fractured, post-human era. In this world, identity is no longer a cohesive whole but a series of shadow-like sediments—an "imaging" of the non-Human human that exists in the interstitial spaces between biological memory and digital information.

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The Self, human and machine with their residues

Solo show

17th August 2019 - 3rd November 2019

Taipei Fine Art Museum
This exhibition brings together 15 installation and sculpture pieces to explore the coexistence between the self, humans, and machines, also serve as a response to the linkage and re-imagination of people to their own culture and traditions (customs, identity, folk beliefs, rituals) and the nomadic accessibility on machines (such as cyberspace, data storage and retrieval and access, and right of use to commands).

Under this network-connected system, by using a collage of traditional oriental elements and multiple sculptures put together with interactive machine installations, Ban-Yuan Chang conveys the political purpose of humans and machines, and the tradition applied to today's society, as well as the imbalance caused by excessive consumption, from which a normalizable imaginary space is proposed. At the same time, the ‘‘co-sharing relationship between machine and human” and the enaction of the entanglement between human and society and machines is interpreted from an affirmative perspective. The posthuman era is about to come, as said by the representative postmodern literary scholar Katherine Hayles: “We have always been posthumans”.

Through this exhibition, Ban-Yuan Chang tends to provide a constructed imaginative artifact space by juxtaposing cultural multiplicities and mechanical interactive installations, in the hopes that the audience can reflect on today's dilemma and the co-sharing and coexistence of the information age.

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