Exhibitions
Yanfei Chen Solo Exhibition
Time & Location
About The Event
WHO IS INSIDE leads the audience to the utopian space imagined by the artist, to explore the
relationship between human and interior space. The word “inside” contains dual meanings,
indicating the physical interior space as well as the inner-self, where fear, anxiety, and invisible
repression converge.
Following Gaston Bachelard’s notion of space, “it is not a container, rather a dwelling place of human
consciousness”, Yanfei looks into the meanings of emotional spaces through painting. The contrast
between the unsettling real life and the stability of the interiors depicted discloses the conflicts,
generating discomforts, confusions, and loneliness. Yanfei transformed her psychological sensations
by depicting abnormal objects in the familiar interior spaces or objects in erratic compositions: a
crow standing on a mattress, a rock on the dining table, or a sofa in a strange position.