Yu-Wun CHEN

b. 1992, Born, lives and works in Taichung, Taiwan.

2017 M.F.A., National Tsing Hua University, Department of Arts & Design, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

ARTISTS STATEMENT

Born in Taichung in 1992, the artist graduated in 2017 from the Graduate Program in Art Education and Creation of the Department of Arts and Design at National Tsing Hua University (formerly National Hsinchu University of Education). 2018 she was selected for the Next Arts Tainan Award, and in 2019 and 2024, she was chosen for the Kaohsiung Award. Now she currently resides and creates in Taichung.

CHEN Yu-Wun primarily works with acrylic paint on canvas or wood panels, drawing inspiration from fragmented impressions to create stories and form images. She attempts to translate the spatial imagery that emerges in her mind into a painted composition. In her works, various viewpoints are switched within each piece, or objects are used to suggest compositions that interconnect spaces. Additionally, symbolic objects are pieced together to form situations, where repeated interpretation of the images leads to varying meanings, creating a recursive yet exitless loop.

CREATIVE CONCEPT

The “Campsite – incense Ashe of 1/3″ series depicts the home space as its primary scene. Since I can remember, the house I have lived in has never changed. On trips out and back, the house serves as a point of reference and return, both the beginning and the end of the day. Later, I rented accommodation in other counties for my studies, and as time passed between returns, the familiar and unfamiliar gradually blended in my memory, and the impression of the house began to blur. Now, due to work and creative endeavors, the house has increasingly drifted away from its original form in my understanding, becoming more like a tent in a campsite. Although it remains necessary, my attention no longer lingers on it for long. The time I spend in the house now reflects only one-third of its image in my mind. The environment of the house continuously and slowly changes for various reasons over time. These differences are not only limited to objects and events but also involve the transformations in people, emotions, and thoughts. Through the creative process, the overlapping and unveiling of colors contain fragments of imagination about the house.

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