Painting
Taipei, Taiwan
October 2026, four weeks
Influenced by Gothic and Baroque aesthetics and alternative subcultures, Chen’s work features animals, ornamental botany, and reimagined memento mori—merging beauty and the grotesque through intricate, distinctive drawing. References span Neolithic archaeological artefacts, Nordic andGreek mythology, and Chinese folklore such as “Classics of Mountains and Seas”. The complex tableaux explore reliance on mysticism in turbulent times, reflections on her Taiwanese roots, cultural clashes, and the many facets of love.
Her practice seeks to rethink and modernize historical memento mori and objects of curiosity, interweaving them with observations from fetish subcultures and the complexities of power exchange.