Chen Yun : Light Shimmering through Timely Rain: Solo Exhibition

Against the contemporary backdrop that emphasizes fluidity and instability, this exhibition seeks to preserve a coordinate for self-awareness amidst shifting memory and perception - responding to how painting, through the erosion of time and sensation, can continuously generate its own density of existence. The exhibited polyptychs function as slices of memory, constructing miniature theatres upon the walls. The state of mind shifts, at times drifting with the shadows, at others remaining steadfast as stone. Amidst the rippling events of life, we strive to capture a sense of clarity; within the shifting light of daily routines, we allow emotions to linger in corners of clamour or silence. This is a contemporary practice of fueki ryūkō - allowing transformation to become an extension of essence, while maintaining an axis of perception through persistent change.

The visual language of the works oscillates between the play of light on figures, everyday objects, and abstract textures. The accumulated layers of flattened pigment on the canvas surface, the intentional gaps left between panels - these interact and resonate within the assembled structure, summoning a sense of time and weight far greater than the frames themselves.

The high notes of a piano can meet an echo from deep antiquity. Within the finitude of life, we traverse the vast seas of knowledge and the immensity of history, applauding stories told in miniature theatres, finding joy in the fine crevices of the everyday. Through these shifting contrasts, we find a place of ease amidst turbulence - extending perception, sensing the infinite possibilities the world leaves open.