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Chen Sung Chih: Elsewhere

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10 November - 3 December 2022 YIRI ARTS
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陳松志 無題 (介於開合之間-8) Untitled (in between open and closed-8), 2021 金屬、玻璃、混合織布、原生紙漿、尼龍單絲線、橡膠管 Metal, glass, mixed fabrics, virgin pulp, nylon thread, rubber tube 25 x 73 x 30 cm
陳松志
無題 (介於開合之間-8) Untitled (in between open and closed-8), 2021
金屬、玻璃、混合織布、原生紙漿、尼龍單絲線、橡膠管
Metal, glass, mixed fabrics, virgin pulp, nylon thread, rubber tube
25 x 73 x 30 cm
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Yiri Arts is delightedly to present Chen Sung Chih: Elsewhere, which will run from November 10 to December 3, 2022. The exhibition features the artist's latest spatial installation and mixed media works, foreground his art practice that engages in the diversification of material, space, and concept. 

 

Chen's work always mixes the qualities of elegance and dilapidation, which are rendered inseverable, demonstrating an oscillation between spirituality and reality. Often utilizing meager everyday material, he incorporates the material into an ongoing, open installation. Underneath the seemingly randomly produced plastic forms are elaborate and precise arrangements and combinations. The artist often modifies familiar themes and material that represent personal life. His deployment of the material and space is informed by a sense of nostalgia, along with the memory and imagination extended therefrom. The objects and space in his work transcend existing codes embodied by signs and the social hierarchical order, exuding an allegorical air. He specializes in using various lyrical forms and narratives to inject a gloomier emotional tension lurking beneath the appearances into the subconscious of the spectator. Through a mysterious, show-paced rhythm, he leads people into an inner corner of loss and avoidance, offering them an opportunity of gaze and introspection in uniquely crafted spaces and situations. 

 

Chen's latest solo exhibition Elsewhere, resembles a coverup, ingeniously arranged to envision people's longing for connecting with nature in serene observation, while exploring the entanglement between material and memory. Using interior paint, textile, and architectural material, he paints, cleans, reassembles, and seals many things and objects from the past. To the artist, physical reality has been infiltrated by digital media, which causes structural switching and shifting in modern people's senses. In the exhibition, the concealed people, events, spaces and sites delay the direct expression of the visual language, pointing to gradual erosion and division within and without the boundary in a place and an area. When pretty appearances and dated coverings are juxtaposed, precious reflection on the traces of time and the nature of objecthood are strung together, imbuing the objects and scenes with a strong sense of presence. Oscillating between the abstract and the concrete, the plastic forms and scenes create a multilayered context, and transport the audience to a surprising "elsewhere." Chen's work is known for its simplicity and delicateness, both of which are created with diversified approaches that bring together rich material vocabularies and narrative layers, revealing our elusive relationship with the surrounding world. By removing convoluted craft and drawing inspiration from unadorned simplicity, he reflects on the inheritance and continuation of the cultural consciousness, and recounts an aesthetics of the middle class, weaving a site with simple material and uncomplicated approaches that opens and closes freely, while introducing the endless lingering of sensibility in the midst of the flexible interstices. 

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