I Yen Chen

I-Yen Chen

Born 1990 Taipei, currently based in Padova, Italy.

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We are soft, but so is our world.
As an artist, Chen is taken and moved by both the fragility of lives and the instability of the environment around us. Through her art, Chen explores the relationship between people and the spaces they inhabit, mapping underlying and neglected “landscapes:” these are terrains of emotion, politics, and memory, as well as earth. Through multi-media and installations, she seeks to present landscapes not as eternal or objective, but as a reflection of human memory and dreams. Chen believes that it is through the unending transformation of this multi-layered space that we settle in, and find affinity with, the world around us. Though she uses an array of media, the fragility and ruggedness of ceramics match well with her current creative approach. Her recent practice both deepens and transforms earlier concerns: borders, senses, and the “metaphorical landscape.” Beginning with a visual experience mesmerized by surface reflections, Chen explores deep into the borders of everyday life created through each tactile experience and its relationship to the visual. Thus, she aims to investigate a dependent yet conflicting relationship between humans and their surroundings.

Since 2016, Chen has been working as a professional artist between Melbourne, Australia and Taipei, Taiwan.

In 2023, Chen relocated to Padova, Italy. 

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CV of I Yen Chen​​