AR:
Which role would you define for yourself? As an artist, what would you define as your task/s?

SC:
To tell you the truth, right now it is not very hard for me to have invitations/get offers for exhibitions - if I compare it with a decade ago. This does not mean that I am a big artist/star but I let people take a look at my quality/qualifications and experiences.

I am just a little Asian artist guy that has no back up from anyone or who would have a lot of power like the mafia in the art world.

I never have gotten to be represented or appear in any kind of artist directory/representations in my own country. But I still survive and I am still going on with my art projects. Because I believe in and I am honest with myself and I always work hard and harder, all the time.

Of course, for the very big international institutional/museum world – they still have their own systems. These I cannot reach according to their qualification standards or I might not mean anything at all for them. This might be a about the nation factor, connections, etc.

However, I really enjoy and feel happy about the way how and what I am doing and all about this is not a big task for me.

But the big task for me is about the “money“ to be able to do what I really want to do. Several invitations had to collapse/I had to skip them. Because of the money/financial support “issue“.

If I was born as or being another citizen I think my conditions for sure would be comfortable (Over the last decade, I have been working a lot outside and got a lot of support from other countries.).

A long, long time ago, during the time when I was a student and after having finished the art university, I really was against that/had a conflict regarding whether art should be something that is free and by any means has no need to be competitive. I was thinking that “Art“ is about “Life“. In fact …, nowadays I have come to realize that the “art world“ is something about the “business“ and “nation“, to be a good artist is not enough, there are several factors to be crossed/to be a successful artist.