About Chen Wan-Jen (陳萬仁)
The kernel of Chen’s creative practice is to capture the repeatedly alternating blank fragments of his quotidian life with videos and installations. To develop his own visual vocabulary, the artist combines various elements with digital image collaged as finely and truthfully as realist paintings. Against the digital environment in which the human body is often codified, flattened, and decontextualized, Chen represents the elapsing fragments of time in his works as alienated and mechanical dynamic objects, to which he attaches his concerns and critique that make the images oscillate between realities and illusions. He also attempts to identify the significance embedded in these fragments of time, trying to frame the pictures of ephemeral time and space by creating the scenes of extremely quotidian existence.
Chen Wan-Jen: personal website
Chen Wan-Jen: Taiwan Contemporary Art Archive Link
CHEN WAN-JEN ARTWORK LIST