Gallery: ARTIST
Country: SINGAPORE
City: SINGAPORE
Website:
https://www.yanyunchendrawings.com/
Abstract:
Dr. Yanyun Chen is an artist drawn to stories that write us, which are written onto and into our bodies; and in turn, the re-writing of these stories through drawing, animation, installation, and sculpture. She traces hurt, grief, wilt, and scars, parses time’s slow violence on botanical and human bodies, and untangles tenuous social constructs around womanhood and upbringing.
These scars that we carry in our bodies, are they marks of progress or burdens of histories?
Her practice wrestles with and casts doubt on traditions in form, method, and subject: on one hand, traditions are celebrated as markers for identity, and as ways of honouring existing value systems and intergenerational lineage; on the other hand, traditions are also limitations, boundaries, and social barriers.