「人的莊園」系列是周慶輝投入長達五年、投入眾多人力與資源的拍攝計畫；他以動物園為創作發想和拍攝場域，鋪陳現代文明生活的浮華與困境，在動物園實景中搭建夢幻的劇場和仿真的家居生活空間，以荒謬錯置的手法，在一種既是家園也似牢籠、從文明室內延伸至自然野生的詭譎情境中，演出一齣齣華麗卻又啞然無語的默劇。
此展探討身體意識、生存意識以及集體行為意識框架，作品內容包括肖像照、於新竹及壽山動物園拍攝的史詩式超大影像、以攝影棚和回收廠為演出場域的錄影裝置、一個讓觀眾進入體驗內部情境的大象房間，和一個冷眼旁觀棕熊生活環境與動態紀錄的多媒體裝置。
Animal Farm, Ching-hui Chou ’s solo exhibition at MOCA Taipei, is based on his five-year-long photography project that involved a large team and significant funding. In this project, Chou turns to zoos as his muses and sites of actual photo making, where vivid tableaus are created to suggest the sumptuous yet often baffled life of modern civilization. The project entails a series of tedious and complex tasks such as writing project proposals, applying permission for site use, fundraising, casting actors, preparing equipment, and producing photography properties. In the past two years, he and his production crew stayed at Hsinchu Zoo and Shoushan Zoo several times, each over an extended period of time to execute the project. Theatrical sets were fabricated against the zoo environment where the actors played their assigned roles as photos were taken at dawn and dusk. By so doing, Chuo inserted surreal theatrical scenes and lifelike vernacular spaces into artificial enclosures in which wild animals were brought together and domesticated. Absurdity and displacement were emphasized as the artist situated humans among animals that were reminiscent of specimens. The home now looked like a cage, while the border between manmade interiors and the wilderness became blurred. A series of eerie yet visually opulent images were formed, much like still photos of stage plays jointly presented by the human beings and the animals in them.
This exhibition is organized under three themes : bodily existence, life boundary, and social environmental frame. On display include portraits of actors in their stage look, nine epic large-scale photographs staged and shot at zoos, and nine videos of performances recorded at the studio and a recycling center. Also featured in the exhibition are an elephant barn that allows the audience to enter and experience the photo shooting backdrop and a multimedia installation through which the behaviors and living environment of brown bears can be observed.
人的莊園 : 周慶輝個展
Animal Farm : Ching-Hui Chou Solo Exhibition
日期 Date：2015.3.28 – 2015.5.17
地點 Place：台北當代藝術館 MOCA Taipei
