Yiding Chen (Shawn)
About
Yiding Chen (b. 2001) is an artist currently living and working between Shanghai and London.
Using images as both medium and method, his practice explores the subtle power dynamics embedded in visual culture, particularly how images function as forms of social interaction. Through material reconstruction and intervention, he examines the relationships between image-making and personal experience, collective consciousness, social norms, and structures of power.
Within this temporary, workshop-like exhibition space, images function as continually produced and deconstructed forms of “evidence.” As visual clues and purported proof of reality, the reconstruction and intervention of images can, to a certain extent, be seen as an intervention in reality itself, as well as a reconstruction of historical truth and social norms. The reconfigured images no longer served merely as carriers of information, but as projections of systems such as bodily discipline, knowledge production, and social prejudice. Within these mechanisms, the eye and the hand—the body’s most fundamental organs of perception and action—are trained, corrected, scrutinized, and labeled.
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