Qingyang Chen, who was born in 1995 at Ningbo of China, is a photographer and video artist based in Shanghai and London. Her practice tries to establish a personal language to communicate her emotions. Most of her work is self-portraits and self-performance which give the viewer ways to relate to the images in her body of work through their own subjective experience. 

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“Touching evokes closeness and intimacy more than any other sensation because you MUST connect and there’s a flow between the two surfaces — as in my chase after fingertips and skin, to and fro. And this feeling is very private and real — fingers feeling the skin, its temperature, and its humidity — a lived experience. At the same time, the understanding of the state of the objects is more like a mental feeling. This is more of a psychological perception and impression; when we touch something, there is an imaginary, ambiguous space, and this sense of uncertainty is connected to our experience and memory, which is a new way to think about what we see and how we feel. '

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Selected Exhibition:

 

10, 2020 'Sensation in between', Arthillgallery, London / UK

11. 2019 Upper Gallery, University of the Arts London, London/UK

02. 2019 Solo Exhibition, Landing Space, E Block Chelsea of Art.

03. 2019 Art Academy Newington, London /UK

09. 2017 Graduation Exhibition，Zhejiang International Studies University, China

10. 2017 Excellent Graduation Works Exhibition，Zhejiang International Studies University, China

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