More than you’ll ever know, 2024 | Photo: Filipe Berndt
Zenith | Millan, São Paulo, 2024 | Photo: Julia Thompson
Zenith | Millan, São Paulo, 2024 | Photo: Julia Thompson
Another second of my life, 2024 | Photo: Ana Pigosso
Zenith | Millan, São Paulo, 2024 | Photo: Julia Thompson
Fran Chang builds landscapes through painting in which the atmospheric expanse of the horizon contrasts with the dimensions of the canvas. The artist’s works are inspired by inhospitable places, devoid of human figures and vegetation, and depict ethereal and lunar scenarios where steam, water, and ice predominate.
The choice of silk as a surface for pictorial creation, a medium that dialogues with her Taiwanese ancestry, reinforces the diaphanous character of her works and reveals the underlying structure, thus establishing a dialog with the tradition of painting.
Chang’s work speaks about the contemporary experience of a relationship with nature mediated by digital images, the intangibility of the natural world, and the ambiguous potential of silence and solitude by depicting scenes of a dissipating world.
Fran Chang held the solo exhibitions Hear the Wind Sing, Bremond Capela, Paris, France (2025); Zenith, Millan, São Paulo (2023), and took part in the 45th Ribeirão Preto Art Salon, Brazil (2020). In 2020, the artist was a recipient of Itaú Cultural’s Arte como Respiro public award. Her work is part of the collections of the Saint Louis Art Museum, USA; and Museu de Arte do Rio – MAR, Brazil.