"衣錦還鄉"是2001 年的一系列作品，包含四張攝影作品"衣錦還鄉1-4"(125x125 / 150x100 / 125x125 / 95x95 公分)，及一件錄影作品"衣錦還鄉-5" (55秒) 

"Returning Home in Splendor" is a series of works made in 20001 including 4 photographs "Returning Home in Splendor 1-4" (125x125 / 150x100 / 125x125 / 95x95 cm) and one video "Returning Home in Splendor-5" (55 seconds) 

“衣錦還鄉“是系列作品，包含四張攝影作品，一件錄影作品。此計畫將朋友養的土狗穿上存種明星狗的衣服，藉以呈現一種想要隱藏原身分並借衣著得到新身分的慾望。衣錦還鄉是借這成語之意將這兩隻狗帶回流浪狗之家，因為聽說他們原來就是流浪狗，既已被收養，也該算是飛黃騰達，所以穿漂亮點是應該的，所以“衣錦還鄉“也就是要這兩隻穿狗明星衣服的狗和流浪狗之家的狗拍張家庭大合照的計畫。

彭弘智

“Returning Home in Splendor” is a series consisting of four photographic works and one video piece. In this project, two mixed-breed dogs owned by friends are dressed in garments typically associated with pedigreed or “celebrity” dogs. Through this act of costuming, the work gestures toward a desire to obscure one’s original identity and to acquire a new one through the symbolic language of attire.

Borrowing from the idiomatic expression “returning home in glory,” the project brings these two dogs back to an animal shelter, which they are said to have once inhabited as strays. Having since been adopted, their change of status might be read as a form of upward mobility. To dress them elegantly thus becomes both ironic and ceremonial, as if marking their social ascent.

In this sense, ”Returning Home in Splendor“ culminates in staging a collective “family portrait”: the two dogs, now clad in the attire of canine stardom, photographed together with the other dogs at the shelter. The image operates simultaneously as reunion, performance, and quiet satire, reflecting on class, belonging, and the constructed nature of identity.

Hung-Chih Peng

Special Thanks to 大塚麻子 Asako Otsuka, 攝影 Photo: 李國民 Kuomin Lee, 錄影 Video: 彭弘智 Hung-Chih Peng