That which is similar. Ying-Chih Chen

Cultural identity in a transition zone where the foreign slowly becomes home – drawing and installation by Ying-Chih Chen.

Exhibition: Ying-Chih Chen. Drawing and Installation
This fall, the studio is showing new works by the artist Ying-Chih Chen, born in Taiwan in 1985 and living in Germany for over fifteen years. They address the theme of cultural identity in a fragile liminal zone, in the foreign land that slowly becomes home.
The focal point of the exhibition is the large floor sculpture "Status Quo in Flow," a stereometrically frozen water wave as an abstract interpretation of Hokusai's famous woodcut. Around it are gathered ink, pencil, and charcoal drawings created especially for this exhibition, with which the graphic artist—based on cityscapes, landscapes, and even cuisine—measures proximity and distance in both cultures, tracing the subtle shifts in the sense of belonging. The exhibition depicts the artist's poetic dialogue with space, time, and her own memory.