Yin-Ju Chen, Somewhere Beyond Right and Wrong, There is a Garden. I Will Meet You There, 2023. Single channel video, HD, stereo sound, 16 min. Commissioned by the 14th Shanghai Biennale. Courtesy of the artist
Drawing on a poem by the thirteenth-century Persian poet Rumi, this film is an account of a healing process and a meditation on human suffering, reflecting on the passing of the artist’s mother. Combining found footage, documentation from the artist’s own travels, and animations of the mythological centaur Chiron (renowned as a healer and prophet), Somewhere Beyond Right and Wrong... asks how spiritual practice can help us to move beyond individual subjectivity to perceive life and death from a cosmic perspective.
Yin-Ju Chen
Yin-Ju Chen interprets social power and history through cosmological systems. Utilizing astrology, sacred geometries, and alchemical symbols, she considers human behavior, nationalism, imperialism, state violence, totalitarianism, utopian formations, and collective thinking. Recently, she has been exploring the material effects of spiritual, shamanic, and Buddhist practices and the metaphysical potentialities of consciousness. She has participated in international exhibitions and film festivals including Shanghai Biennial (2023, 2014), Taipei Biennial (2023, 2020, 2012), Tate Modern Starr Cinema (2023), ICA at NYU Shanghai (2022), Taipei Fine Arts Museum (2021), Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (2021), Gwangju Biennale (2021), Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art (2019), International Film Festival Rotterdam (2018, 2011), Transmediale (2018), Liverpool Biennial (2016), Forum Expanded at the Berlinale (2016), Biennial of Sydney (2016), and the Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum Biennale (2014), among others. She lives and works in Taipei.
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