‘Still Life with Cucumber’ is part of Ting-Ting’s second ‘Still life With Fruit’ series, in which the artist explores the fetishism surrounding commodities and brands. In this series, Ting-Ting has focused on brands and fruit from Japan in the Japanese still life painting style rather than the European style of previous works. By doing so, Ting-Ting wants to emphasize the obsession with Japanese culture that has spread all over the world. This trend is especially significant to Taiwan…

‘Still Life with Cucumber’ is part of Ting-Ting’s second ‘Still life With Fruit’ series, in which the artist explores the fetishism surrounding commodities and brands. In this series, Ting-Ting has focused on brands and fruit from Japan in the Japanese still life painting style rather than the European style of previous works. By doing so, Ting-Ting wants to emphasize the obsession with Japanese culture that has spread all over the world. This trend is especially significant to Taiwan, which was under Japanese rule from 1895 and 1945 and where Ting-Ting was born and raised.

Ting-Ting Cheng’s exquisite photographs explore the relationship between objects and people’s emotions towards them. Ting has developed a very particular style of still life that mixes a delicate treatment of the image with an absurdist vision of capitalism and the every day life. The resulting…

Ting-Ting Cheng’s exquisite photographs explore the relationship between objects and people’s emotions towards them. Ting has developed a very particular style of still life that mixes a delicate treatment of the image with an absurdist vision of capitalism and the every day life. The resulting works are minimal and austere, but always poignant artistic plays with the conflicts between branding (the ultimate artificial tool) and nature. In 2011 Ting-Ting Cheng will have her first extensive solo show, opening next June at the Taipei Fine Art Museum.