WEN—HSUAN KUO 郭汶瑄中

SELECTED WORK

Self-Portrait 3

2003–2024

Documents, photographs, wooden frames｜Set of four｜Medium: time

Wen-Hsuan Kuo, Self-Portrait 3, complete four-part installation, 2003–2024
Wen-Hsuan Kuo, Self-Portrait 3, complete four-part installation, 2003–2024
Self-Portrait 3, 2003 Rapid Runway Repair training certificate
Self-Portrait 3, 2003 Rapid Runway Repair training certificate
Self-Portrait 3, first-person view from the excavator cab, 2024
Self-Portrait 3, first-person view from the excavator cab, 2024
Self-Portrait 3, 2024 excavator technician certificate with identifying information redacted
Self-Portrait 3, 2024 excavator technician certificate with identifying information redacted

WORK DESCRIPTION

The work brings together a 2003 certificate in Rapid Runway Repair training, photographs of excavator operation, and a 2024 technician certificate, placing twenty-one years of skill, embodied experience, and institutional documentation within a single temporal structure.

The certificates and operational images are not supporting résumé material but two endpoints left by time. The medium is neither the machinery nor the documents themselves, but the irreducible twenty-one years between them.