Chien-Chi Chang’s photograph transforms Vienna International Airport into a layered, luminous web of motion and reflection. Airplane tails puncture the night sky, while service vehicles, luggage carts, and jet bridges perform a chaotic choreography on the rain-slicked tarmac. Shot through glass, the image merges planes and terminal, passengers and machinery, creating a shimmering double exposure that blurs boundaries.

Created in 2010, the photograph distills the restless energy of transit, where time stretches and collapses, and movement dissolves into abstraction. Chang presents an expression of liminality, where departure and arrival, presence and absence, merge into a single, disorienting frame.