Ting En Chen is a Taiwan-born artist. She works across painting, installation, mix mediums performance. Chen's practice has been focusing on the presence of everyday life. Her recent concerns address to connection, relation and practice between individual experiences and physical world, as well as the construction of them. Chen’s work is the hybridity of the grotesque and the ethereal, create images of the human body with disparate bodies and multiple parts to reflection on her own existence.

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Creating a work is like walking through a tightrope with an abyss under your feet.
I held my breath. I have to work extremely hard not to fall off the rope:
It is only through the willful act of my own perception that I can complete the work without losing my balance. If painting is seen as a form of self-expression, I think the object what i want to conversation is the material I use. Body, brushes, hands replaced my mouth, and words were transformed into line strokes. For me, this process is a repeatedly conversation. When the process stops, the conversation ends here. The closed conversation is unspeakable like a secret. There has not traditional lexical ability. I can ‘t finds more accurate words to convey these emotions, even if I find them, they will reduce the intensity of emotions after translation. I create images of the human body with disparate bodies and multiple parts. The disparate images of the body are fluctuated at the boundary between self and others, and I try to capture these images through minute vibrations. At the same time, the body is also the best carrier of the behavior. Through behaviors with minimal language translation and cultural interaction present spirituality and create a mutual aid relationship with medium. The subject is not substance but exists in multiple forms from the overlap with the outside world and changing the relationship with the outside world constantly.